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Young voters are turning out. So where's the love?
Campus Camp Wellstone's Mattie Weiss just posted a scathing entry about the underresourcing of young voter organizing at a time when we have the potential to decide the presidential election.
She notes:
[N]umbers indicate that 6.5 million people under 30 voted in this year's primaries and caucuses, and that the overall youth vote has risen from 9 percent in 2000 to 17 percent in 2008.
Meanwhile, who are campaigns focusing on? Swing voters and “hockey moms.”
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Divided We Fall: How Clinton and Obama Could Either Destroy Each Other or Change Politics Forever
I've always been incredibly confident in my political positions, but in regards to the 2008 Democratic hopefuls, I remain agonizingly torn.
And who can blame me? The prospects of the first African American and female president presenting themselves simultaneoulsy? It's almost too much for a young progressive to handle!
All I know is that the infighting has got to go. Or, better yet, never start. And while this might just seem like another uncomfortable, progressive white girl imploring "why can't we just all get along?" - hear me out.