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Around the Tubes: 7/26/07

  • National Stonewall Democrats -- The "log cabin" of the left -- proudly publicized YDA's election of its first openly-gay leaders. David Hardt of Texas and Chris Anderson of Tennessee were elected YDA president and vice president respectively in nearly unanimous votes
  • Young People For (YP4) is using facebook to advertise its Progressive Academy Online, an interactive online course, focusing specifically women's rights, disability rights, economic justice, environmental justice, and LGBT rights. The course -- starting July 23 -- is titled "The Progressive Movement: Social Sector Issues 101" and is meant to enlighten and instruct young progressives.
  • Skeptics responded to Anastasia Goodstein's post on YDA "Election 2.0, MySpacing @ Work & 'Indulgences' Doing Good", wondering whether the accessibility of politics via myspace or facebook comes at the expense of substance. It's an interesting and thought-provoking debate.
  • Meredith Clark, a Millennial from Tallahassee, explores the reasons why Florida's young voter turnout bucked the national trend and declined in 2006, as previously mentioned on Around the Tubes. She presents a long list of excuses, as well as some interesting, legitimate points.
  • Yahoo's People of the Web profiles James Kotecki, a Georgetown student, who, through YouTube, has interviewed presidential candidates in his dorm room. He has recieved criticism from fellow-YouTube aficionados for his "yawn-inducing" posts, but the a number of candidates like Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul, John Edwards, and Mike Gravel have responded positively to his advice.
  • ABC News publishes this ostensibly ground-breaking report on David Burnstein, an 18-year-old documentarian, who through his movie "18 in '08" encourages teens to vote in the presidential election. ABC fails to notice the rising national trend in voter turnout and avows that "we need to reverse the trend." Maybe they're just looking at Florida's trends...?
  • A fascinating post on The Everyday Citizen describing "How Democrats got Religion" -- similar to the recent Time Magazine cover story. Democratic candidates seem to appeal to voters across the religious spectrum -- from evangelicals to less-fundamentalist believers -- through environmentalist and economic issues, unlike past Republicans who have relied on "family values" issues to attract religious voters. A video below parodying the "Mac/PC" ads represents a new trend of religious America:
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July 26th, 2007 1:57pm
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Kotecki and ABC

Submitted by Michael Connery on Thu, 2007-07-26 14:14.

I've never been a fan of Kotecki. I admire greatly what he's done - basically bootstrapping his dorm room into a 21st Century version of Meet the Press - but his antics annoy me.

As for ABC - they've consistently produced some of the worst young voter stories around. I love it that they are spotlighting 18 in 08, but their determination to cling to the apathetic youth vote narrative seems to be a form of willful ignorance.

When are their editors going to wake up and look at the stats?

thanks!

Submitted by Sarah Burris on Thu, 2007-07-26 23:16.

wowzers! thanks for the compliment and repost of my Dems and God piece :) I wasn't sure if I should repost it on here because it isn't as much about young peeps. But thanks anyhow!!