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John McCain's Problems With Polls Continue
By Bonnie Erbe -
Bonnie Erbe
- September 29, 2008
Bad news keeps coming in, and he did himself no favors in the debate.
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Confusing Voter Registration Laws Could Affect Presidential Election
By Nikki Schwab -
Nation & World
- September 24, 2008
Register at parents' home? At school? Students get conflicting advice.
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Usher Endorsed Obama but Has Bipartisan Approach to Voting
By Paul Bedard -
Washington Whispers
- September 20, 2008
The hip hop king has a program to engage kids in politics.
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ACLU Sues Michigan Over Voter Purge Program, Saying It Hurts College Students
By Liz Halloran -
Nation & World
- September 18, 2008
Lawsuit alleges that voter-registration rules in this swing state could disenfranchise young people.
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Barack Obama, Pollsters, and the Youth Vote
By John Aloysius Farrell -
John A. Farrell
- September 18, 2008
Damn kids these days are unpollable!
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Punch-Drunk From Watching the Polls? Blame Today's Youth
By Bonnie Erbe -
Bonnie Erbe
- September 11, 2008
Can't figure out the scattershot polls? Blame young voters, who are totally befuddling pollsters.
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Barack Obama and His Hip-Hop Friends Reach Out to Youth Vote
By Bonnie Erbe -
Bonnie Erbe
- August 25, 2008
The Hip-Hop Caucus is trying to get young voters to the polls this Fall.
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5 Voting Groups to Watch this Presidential Cycle
By Nikki Schwab and Kent Garber -
Nation & World
- August 13, 2008
Women, Hispanics, African Americans, Evangelicals, and the young could have an impact.
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Texting for the Youth Vote
News Desk
- February 1, 2008
As youth organizers predicted, young voter turnout is surging in the presidential nominating contests. To keep the momentum rolling through Super Tuesday, Student PIRGs' New Voter Project is announcing it will text 20,000 young people with reminders to vote on the eve of the February 5 contests in 24 states.
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Democrats Say Young Are Flocking to Party
News Desk
- January 11, 2008
Assessing the presidential results in Iowa and New Hampshire, Democratic leaders see signs that young voters are flocking to their party and away from the Republicans. Of the 65,230 young people ages 17 to 29 who participated in the Iowa caucuses January 3, 52,580 caucused for Democrats while only 12,650 caucused for the Republicans.
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Youth Vote Tripled in Iowa
News Desk
- January 4, 2008
Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee may owe a debt to young people for their victories in last night's Iowa caucuses. Youth voter turnout tripled from 2004, with 65,000 people ages 17 through 29 turning out for the caucuses.
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When Young People Vote in Greater Numbers, Does Anyone Hear Them?
The Paper Trail
- November 9, 2006
Two million more young people voted this year than did in the last midterm election, a research group told student reporters yesterday. The change could bring higher-education issues to the forefront.
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THE TURNOUT WARS: Which Schools Cared...and Which Didn't Have Time
The Paper Trail
- November 8, 2006
Young people aren't famous for loving to vote. This year was different in some places, not so different in others.
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Top Prize: Voting Is for Rookies
The Paper Trail
- November 8, 2006
Showing up at the polls is one thing. Putting your name on the ballot and actually winning an election, as Northeastern University sophomore political science major Jeff Fontas did yesterday, is a whole other thing.
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Second Bests: "In a Relationship" . . . with Voting
The Paper Trail
- November 8, 2006
Inspired by Gov.-elect Deval Patrick's higher-ed positions, University of Massachusetts students voted enthusiastically, the Daily Collegian reports.
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Honorable Mentions: Just Like Voting as a Friend
The Paper Trail
- November 8, 2006
George Washington University students care—but their attention was less on CNN than it was on a fist-to-fist jousting match between the campus presidents of the College Democrats and the College Republicans.
The Ball State University Daily News manages to find some students who really care, a whole, whole lot.
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It's Too Complicated: Would Vote, if Only They Knew How...
The Paper Trail
- November 8, 2006
Some Columbia University students who registered with their campus addresses had to fill out provisional ballots--because they just couldn't find their polling station, says the Spectator.
Washington University in St.
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Dishonorable Mentions: Help Needed
The Paper Trail
- November 8, 2006
A Duke Chronicle election blogger saw more students "absorbed in their economics textbooks or their dinner conversations" than by televisions tuned to CNN.
A Rutgers University voting station had only 12 voters by noon yesterday, the Daily Targum reports, picking "quiet" as the euphemistic adjective of choice.
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Embarrassing Mentions: Not Even Facebook Friends With Voting
The Paper Trail
- November 8, 2006
In an ASU Herald poll, Arkansas State students list their No. 1 issue by far: "Don't Know.
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