Not that this is extremely new news to any of you younger folk out there, but it is expected that there will be a dramatically increased number of voters under the age of 25 this year.:
"After dismal turnout by young voters in 2000, surveys this year show that interest in the election among the young is near the highest level it has reached at any time since 18- to 20-year-olds were given the vote in 1972. And state election officials say registration of new young voters is coming in at levels they have not seen in years.
Polls in the spring and summer from the Harvard Institute of Politics, the Pew Research Center and MTV all found that young people say they plan to vote at a rate that will far eclipse the low-water mark of four years ago. The pool of potential young voters is substantial - about 40.6 million Americans ages 18 to 29, or one in five eligible voters, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, or Circle, a nonprofit research group that has concentrated on the youth vote."
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This can only be good for us. The youth vote is getting particularly screwed by the RNC (though I think that they are also poorly reached out to by the dems at times). If 40 million youth voters actually turn out in November, I have trouble seeing how Bush can win. Though the revival of the youth vote has been much ballyhooed every election cycle.