Young Voters, Identity Politics
"McCain understands people like him better than he does people like us, so his tax plans will help the rich, not the people who need it the most. I want to vote for someone who will look out for me."
"McCain understands people like him better than he does people like us, so his tax plans will help the rich, not the people who need it the most. I want to vote for someone who will look out for me."
Ben Terris | Posted 07.15.2008 | Home
All across Texas young people share similar views: they'd make illegal immigration harder and legal immigration easier. "There are plenty of jobs here, especially the kind that immigrants take."
Ben Terris | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home
Talking politics with young people across the country has meant talking about education. "What works," says one, "is retaining teachers and recruiting volunteers, people to push the kids hard at school."
Paul Abrams | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
Although not of that generation himself, Obama fits the millennials' needs and aspirations -- his very life is a testimony to their worldview.
Ben Terris | Posted 06.25.2008 | Home
I'll go to bars, hostels, small-town campaign headquarters. I'll seek out house parties and mow lawns with landscapers. The question: What are young people across the country thinking about the election?
Posted 04.28.2008 | Home
The roster of Democratic Party superdelegates is a list of Very Serious People with years of political experience. Also on the list are college kids Lauren and Awais. Watch their YouTube and help them vote.
Barnett Zitron | Posted 04.22.2008 | Home
One thing is for sure: Hillary's best friend in Pennsylvania (even better than Gov. Rendell and the crowds of older voters) is the state's closed primary and inflexible voting regulations.
Demos | Posted 04.18.2008 | Home
Your degrees are the most expensive in history. Entry level jobs are hard to find. Pay at those jobs has decreased. And full benefits are a thing of the past. But you can work to change all of that.
Darren Foster | Posted 04.16.2008 | Media
This year, I've found that not only have young voters used the lingua franca of their generation -- technology -- to amplify their voice, they have forever changed the landscape of American electoral politics.
Winston-Salem Journal | Lisa Boone-Wood | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
Students for Barack Obama set up a sound system in front of the clock tower at Winston-Salem State University one recent afternoon and cranked up the ...
Catherine Geanuracos | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
Our goal is to get young people who are already supporting Barack's candidacy to talk directly to their parents and convince them to support him.
The New York Times | Jan Hoffman | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
As a small chorus of superdelegates has announced a preference for Senator Barack Obama in recent weeks, a theme is emerging: their children made them...
Michael Hais and Morley Winograd | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
If Obama, the Millennials' preferred candidate, is denied the nomination in a way that they see as unfair, the Democrats will almost certainly lose an historic opportunity to win the loyalty of this generation
Scout Opatut | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics
I'm afraid that I will hurt my candidate. I think the youth vote will hurt Obama.
Joe Vogel | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics
The revolution will be YouTubed.
Tina Dupuy | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics
On Super Tuesday I went to the polls half expecting the turn out to look like a Hannah Montana concert. When I got there it looked more like a Hannah and Her Sisters reunion.
Seth Colter Walls | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
The party ought to reflect on how, by failing to provide young voters with a level of ownership during past campaigns, it lost them.
Scout Opatut | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
I was so in awe of my generation, of the number of newly-18-year-old hands propping up "OBAMA '08″ signs, I thought I could almost be proud.
Michael Hais and Morley Winograd | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
The contests on Super Tuesday was the first test of a new phenomenon -- the ability of Millennial Generation kids to influence the voting decisions of their parents.
NYCity News Service | Posted 02.04.2008 | Home
It took a little convincing for Kenda Nunez, Baltazar Cortez and Geraldine LaPenne to let their lattes cool a minute while they talked politics, but soon they got fired up and realized they had a lot to say.
Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 01.29.2008 | Politics
Barack's campaign is about changing the world, Hillary's is about winning the White House. I'd like to make that abundently clear.
Christine Pelosi | Posted 01.26.2008 | Home
Obama swept to victory in South Carolina, giving this once-red state a purple hue. Over 520,000 people voted tonight in the Democratic primary - walloping the turnout of last week's GOP primary.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.20.2008 | Politics
Younger black activists and elected officials are unlikely to feel any loyalty to the Clintons, are engaged by a post-baby-boom candidate and feel more in sync with Obama on the issues.
Dan Treul | Posted 01.16.2008 | Home
Christine Pelosi | Posted 01.15.2008 | Home
Young and young-at-heart voters are looking for inspiration. With tensions running thick, who will HALT and inspire us?
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Ben Terris | Posted 07.21.2008 | Home