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2008 Youth Vote in Context
The following charts and graphs are meant to contextualize the unique role that young voters played in the 2008 election, and their increasingly important role in a winning electoral coalition:
2008 Youth Electoral Map

2004 Youth Electoral Map

Youth Vote Partisan Advantage: 2000 - 2008

Youth Vote Historical Support: 1976 - 2008

Breaking News
Political Wire:
Close Republican Race in MichiganA new Marketing Resource Group poll in Michigan finds a very tight Republican race for governor, with Pete Hoekstra (R) and Mike Cox (D) tied at 21%, Rick Snyder (R) at 20% and Michael Bouchard (R) ...Think Progress:
Flashback: Conservatives Guaranteed ‘ObamaCare Is Dead,’ ‘Pelosi Doesn’t Have The Votes’For months, the right wing has declared the death of “ObamaCare,” promising that comprehensive health care reform was doomed. Reasons for the putative demise included the election of ...Tech President:
The Things You Can (and Can't) Do with a White House Email ListOn ABC's This Week this weekend, former Bush White House official Karl Rove criticized the Obama White House for the alleged deed of having "sent out unsolicited e-mails to federal employees ...Tech President:
PdF Question: How Did the Internet Affect the Health Care Battle of 2009-10?With the year-long debate over health care reform now entering its denouement (or a new chapter), how do you think the internet affected the course of the political battle? That's the question I just ...The Caucus:
D.L.C.'s Reed Tapped to Run Deficit PanelThe head of the Democratic Leadership Council is in line to be executive director of President Obama's bipartisan commission on reducing the national debt.
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Seriously overboard, don't you think? Preceding the president's speech to a gathering of House Democrats, thousands of protesters descended around the Capitol to protest the passage of health care ...by: Craig Berger | 0 comments
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Great new ad from Operation Free Our national security organizations are taking climate change seriously and congress needs to do the same: The DOD has put climate change into their quadrennial ...by: Sarah Burris | 0 comments
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Yesterday Michael Moore appeared on the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer to talk about how we're kind of getting shafted on the health care "compromise" that no republicans will vote for anyway. ...by: Sarah Burris | 0 comments
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The Kansas City Star has a cool piece that shows off how much of the stimulus that young people got I wanted to list here. According to an assessment of the Department of Labor's jobs-for-youth ...by: Sarah Burris | 0 comments
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Millennials (young Americans born 1982-2003) rate the quality of education and the cost of college near the top of the list of issues about which they are most concerned, just behind jobs and the ...by: Millennial Makeover | 0 comments
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Cultural Capitalizers
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- Billionaires for Bush
- Drinking Liberally
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- Head Count
- Hip Hop Summit Action Network
- Ironweed Films
- Justice Through Music
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- Lokahi Outreach
- National Hip Hop Political Convention
- ONE Campaign
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- Screening Liberally
- Vera Project
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