Young Voters

Did you see the article in the NYT? "Obama's Young Backers Twist Parents' Arms"

During the TX and OH primaries a few friends and I started an independent effort to help elect Obama: http://www.yrmomma4obama.com.

Our goal...

While the gender gap in U.S. politics is narrowing, exit poll results in recent primary elections suggest that a generation gap, in which younger and older Americans vote against one another, seems to be emerging, especially among Democrats. Thanks to the strong social tolerance and lack of gender role...

OK, I'm an idiot. In fact, we're all idiots, all 26,917,473 of us U.S. citizens age 18 to 25. We do everything for the wrong reasons...or so we're told.

As an 18-year-old Obama supporter, I am constantly being stereotyped.

Left and right, I am categorized by patronizing remarks from...

A new generation is coming of age on America's political stage...

Iowa Voters Ages 18-29
Youth Vote Triples
59% for Barack Obama

South Carolina Voters Ages 18-29
Youth Vote Triples
67% for Barack Obama

Maybe it's another Clinton running for president or maybe its American Gladiators being back on television or maybe it was the late night monologue jokes during the writer's strike -- but I'm suffering from some déjà vu. It's all sounding vaguely familiar -- I've seen this -- heard it before....

Just months ago, I stood in line in the Boston Commons, directly across the street from the dorm room I sit in everyday, to get a chance to see a speech by a presidential candidate. I recall the picture almost too clearly -- my mental image of waves upon waves...

The Democratic contests on Super Tuesday was the first test of a new phenomenon in American politics -- the ability of Millennial Generation kids to influence the voting decisions of their parents. When Caroline Kennedy began the string of Kennedy endorsements for Obama with her NY Times op-ed,...

Guest Post from Max Rosenbaum - High School Senior:
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A while back I heard someone say that our generation was the "apathetic" one. Our parents and grandparents were hippies, and we're the counter-reaction to their reactionary instinct. We go a step further than trying to change the...

Seventy-eight year-old Rep. Charlie Rangel calls him "stupid," BET mogul Robert Johnson, 62, compares him to Sidney Poitier in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (not a good thing, intimates Johnson), Rep John Lewis, 68, calls him "no Martin Luther King Jr," and former ambassador Andrew Young, 76,...