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Quick Hits - May 28th

  • PBS did a huge segment on the youth vote with Heather Smith of Rock the Vote, Sujatha Jahagirdar of PIRG, and three students each supporting one of the remaining candidates. For my money, Sujatha had the best line in the piece:

    But the real story here is that young people have been turning out for many election cycles. In fact, in 2004, youth turnout increased by more than 11 percent, which was almost triple the increase we saw in the general population.

    So what we hope we see this election cycle is the permanent death of the notion that young people don't vote and young people don't matter. - PBS

  • The National Campus Voter Registration Project has launched Your Vote, Your Voice, a project to help students register their peers on campus. - Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Scotty McClellan's new book is the talk of the town and everyone has blogged it today. For my money, Glenn Greenwald has the best take in this post which skewers the media reaction. - Salon
  • All three remaining candidates have joined forces to release a (toothless) statement about Darfur. - TPM Election Central
  • Clinton backers plan to protest at the game-deciding Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting this Saturday. - Washington Post
  • With less than one week to go, Obama appears to be "banking" super delegates for a big announcement. - Political Wire
  • Whatever happened to the Jena 6? - AlterNet
  • The VA continues to downplay the seriousness of PTSD. - Vet Voice
  • Declare Yourself has released a book in which celebrities discuss why they will vote. Not too sure how I feel about this. Seems a little silly and superficial, but if it sells copies and convinces people to go to the polls then yay on them. - Declare Yourself
  • The latest craze at Oberlin College? Competitive sustainable living. - New York Times
  • GRITtv interviews a soldier who was stop-lossed. - FireDogLake
May 28th, 2008 10:08pm
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