Written by: Future Majority Editors and Contributors
It gets tiring correcting our elders since they “know what’s best for us” and it is really hard not being completely sarcastic in this response.
Hill.com published a story titled “Running Idol Style” which describes yet another out of touch story and ridiculous attempt by Hollywood and Washington insiders to […]

Two candidates this election cycle have targeted young voters and need your help to win on Tuesday, November 6, 2007. Elections boil down to two things-votes and money. You need both to win and the Young Voter PAC’s endorsed candidates for 2007 need your support in the home stretch.
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November 6th–Election Day 2007–is just around the corner for folks in many states. If you’re reading this, you probably don’t need to be convinced to target young people to vote in the upcoming elections. If you still need convincing, you might want to check out an article in the Politico that laid out some statistics.
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Adam Nagourney misses an opportunity to report on important youth vote statistics and trends in his New York Times article “Will Obama Rock the Youth Vote?” Worse than Nagourney’s lack of reporting though is the Obama Campaign Manager’s comment on the importance of the youth vote to their campaign.
The misunderstanding of the increase in youth […]

Young voters are not mythical unicorns; we don’t just show up out of nowhere nor do we just live in a candidate’s dreams. Any candidate who wants a young person’s vote must target us, talk to us about issues we care about and then have a field and messaging program to get us to the […]

The 2008 Presidential cycle is here and candidates are increasingly competing for the youth vote. Rightfully so, young people voted in record numbers in the 2004 and 2006 elections and all signs point to 2008 being even bigger for the youth vote. It is not just hype or hope that young voters can […]

David Broder, over at the Washington Post, wrote an article today on young voters…my response to his take that young people are apathetic is below. His article is not all bad–in fact I like some of what he says–but his premise for starting the article out is all wrong which is why not only […]