BJ
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Sat Nov-06-04 08:17 AM
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Were we lied to about the youth vote? Could be....... |
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More young citizens vote, boost Kerry totals
Voters under 30 up by 4.7 million from 2000 race
By LAURIE MANSFIELD REGISTER STAFF WRITER November 6, 2004
Early news reports that young people made a poor showing in Tuesday's election seemed unbelievable to Iowa college students who voted. (-snip-) It turns out that young adults did vote in greater numbers and percentages than ever before, according to the Center for Information & Research on Civil Learning at the University of Maryland at College Park.
The center estimates that 20.9 million people ages 18-29 voted this year, a 51.6 percent turnout rate for that age group. That's a 9.3 percentage point increase - or 4.7 million more people - than the 42 percent who voted in 2000. The previous high was 48 percent in 1992. (-snip-) Young adults were the only age group that preferred the Democrats, according the Maryland center. (-snip-) The Des Moines Register
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Sat Nov-06-04 08:21 AM
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1. Yeah, the percentages were deceptive. |
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They told us that the same % of youth voted as in 2k. This is true - but with the turnout increase, that same percent means a lot more!
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Sat Nov-06-04 08:33 AM
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3. The online version doesn't tell the whole story either. |
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The printed newspaper has two graphs.
One shows that among 18-29-year-olds the percentage among all voters was up since 2000, 16.8% to 18.4% in 2004; 20,996,000 ballots cast by that age group; and 51.6% of the total in that age group voted.
Another graph shows that John Kerry received 55% of all votes cast by the 18-29 year olds.
On a personally note, at the Kerry rallies I attended I noticed an age gap. In other words, there were a significant number of geezers, such as myself, and a significant number of very young eligible voters with, as I saw it, only a sprinkling of thirty and forty-somethings.
Of course this is only my personal observation and not to be taken as empirical evidence at all. Though many of my age-group peers, when I brought this up in conversation, commented that they too noticed a "generation gap," as it were.
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Sat Nov-06-04 08:23 AM
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2. Let's discuss 2004 election, shall we?.....diebolddiebolddiebolddiebold |
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Sat Nov-06-04 08:34 AM
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Sat Nov-06-04 08:35 AM
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5. The Right Wing will do what ever in it's power to Supress the |
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Youth Vote. It's critical to their agenda of destroying the Democratic Party.
You'll see lots and lots of stories of how not to count on the youth vote in elections so why bother reaching out to them in the first place.
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Sat Nov-06-04 08:41 AM
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6. That's why the "liberal" media pushed the "kids don't vote" stories. |
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And there was an incident at Iowa State University in Ames, IA at a remote, early voting station on campus that ran out of ballots.
I don't know if the Story County auditor's a Democrat or Republican but she weakly claimed she had no idea that the student voter turnout would be so great.
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Sat Nov-06-04 08:44 AM
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Even more need to come out next time. The important thing here is not to allow too many to become discouraged by this. The message that they can and they will make a difference if they stay involved is most important.
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Sat Nov-06-04 08:47 AM
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8. Impossible! We know MM, rappers , celebrities only mobilized fundies |
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Shut up! Anything you do only makes it worse!
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Sat Nov-06-04 08:51 AM
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9. What, pray tell, are you babbling about? |
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I do trust you're being sarcastic. If not..............?
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