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robp
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 Posted: 11/05/04 - 14:28 Post subject: Get out and vote....
Did this backfire on the Democrats? I have not googled the facts to back this up but I did read that turnout among youth and minorities were at similar percentages as the 2000 election. Was it the middle class conservatives who got off their butts and voted in record numbers and turned this election?
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Posted: 11/05/04 - 14:34 Post subject: Re: Get out and vote....
| robp wrote: | | Did this backfire on the Democrats? I have not googled the facts to back this up but I did read that turnout among youth and minorities were at similar percentages as the 2000 election. Was it the middle class conservatives who got off their butts and voted in record numbers and turned this election? |
The way I heard it, everyone got out in record numbers. The percentages held, but the total voters in the 18-25 age group increased quite a bit. Minnesota had the highest percentage of overall voter turnout since Eisenhower.
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Posted: 11/05/04 - 14:56 Post subject:
Many of the articles that I've read say the percentage of young voters was approx. the same this time around vs. 2000. Even though Emenim, Bruce Springsteen, P Diddy, and MTV tried everything in their power to Rock the Vote - it didn't really amount to anything in the end.
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Pug
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Posted: 11/05/04 - 16:04 Post subject:
| sonnylax wrote: | | Many of the articles that I've read say the percentage of young voters was approx. the same this time around vs. 2000. Even though Emenim, Bruce Springsteen, P Diddy, and MTV tried everything in their power to Rock the Vote - it didn't really amount to anything in the end. |
MTV.com has an article about the young voters.
| MTV.com wrote: | | According to CBS News analysis of exit polls, more than 22 million of you voted, the highest number in more than a decade. In key battleground states like Ohio and Florida, one in every five voters was under the age of 30. Overall, nearly 52 percent of all eligible 18- to 30-year-olds in 2004 pulled the levers and punched the cards, compared to just 42 percent in the 2000 election. |
http://www.mtv.com/chooseorlose/headlines/news.jhtml?id=1493471
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Posted: 11/05/04 - 16:11 Post subject:
Did they or didn't they?
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usyoun054030747nov05,0,965961.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines
| Quote: | WASHINGTON - They created Web sites, designed T-shirts, organized rallies, staffed information booths and talked tirelessly about the importance of exercising their voting rights.
For the countless young people who worked to encourage their peers to participate in the political process, the biggest disappointment was hearing that their efforts fell short.
Initial reports by the Associated Press said that the percentage of young voters was the same as in 2000, about 16 percent. That contradicted expectations by some of a higher youth voter turnout.
"That's really disappointing," said Matt Scafidi, 22, a University of Pennsylvania student who worked for the nonpartisan Rock the Vote campaign that sought to inform young voters. "I thought across the country young people were going to vote at a much higher percentage."
His own experience indicated a more optimistic reality. "I think that students specifically in Philadelphia probably carried the state for John Kerry," he said. "The turnout [at Penn] was incredible."
Scafidi wasn't alone in his assessment. On Wednesday, the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning issued a study opposing claims that an increase of youth voters failed to materialize. The center, a research institution based at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, said 20.9 million people younger than 30 voted, 4.6 million more than in 2000. Percentagewise, the youth vote in 2004 was only slightly higher than in 2000, but the center argues that the percentage represented a larger slice of a bigger pie. |
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Sahara
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Posted: 11/05/04 - 16:12 Post subject:
| Quote: | | Did this backfire on the Democrats? |
No. The whole country is better for people acting on their civic responsibility of voting. Hopefully this election is a baby-step as far as registration and voting. And, hopefully interest is higher than normal for mid-term elections. (A girl can dream.)
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Posted: 11/05/04 - 16:17 Post subject:
| sonnylax wrote: | | Many of the articles that I've read say the percentage of young voters was approx. the same this time around vs. 2000. Even though Emenim, Bruce Springsteen, P Diddy, and MTV tried everything in their power to Rock the Vote - it didn't really amount to anything in the end. |
Maybe it did, though. With so many of the rest of the country posting record turnout numbers, if the same number of youths voted as did in 2000 the percentage would be much lower.
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