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The Rise of Young Voters
via Taegan Goddard's Political Wire by (author unknown) on January 30, 2008
Time: "Frustrated by feckless Washington, energized by the unscripted, pundit-baffling freedom of a wide-open race, young people are voting in numbers rarely seen since the general election of 1972 -- the first in which the voting age was lowered to 18. Sen. Barack Obama is both catalyst and beneficiary... In a year of unprecedented levels of participation by Democrats of all ages, Obama is counting on a youthquake that reverberates upward. On the short road remaining to Super Tuesday, the race may come down to this: Will the youthful ranks of Obama’s movement grow virally as the election goes national? And will a public long trained to follow youthful trends be swept up in the tide?"
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