Young Voters

Both political parties are trying to get the young voter to support their candidates.  While Republicans can claim that their party brought us George W. Bush (238 historians call George W. Bush our worst President - see Raw Story), Democrats have an example of intelligence, youth, and leadership in President Barack Obama.  Do young voters want people like Republican and former oil executive, Rep. Joe Barton, leading the Energy Committee in the House? If Republicans regain control of the House of Representatives, Republican Barton would be the chair in charge of overseeing energy, oil, and the continuing cleanup of the gulf.  That sounds like a nightmare!

Oshkosh Northwestern:

The Democratic National Committee is devoting $50 million to reach first-time voters and get those who voted for the first time in 2008 to return to the polls. This group includes voters 18 to 29 years old, the majority of whom voted for Democrats in the 2008 presidential election as well as the 2006 midterm elections, according to Tufts University’s Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), which studies voting habits of young people....

.....Ohio’s 15th district, which includes most of the Ohio State University in Columbus and its more than 50,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students, features a rematch between freshman Democratic Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy and former Republican state Sen. Steve Stivers. Kilroy defeated Stivers in 2008 by 2,312 votes. She is the first Columbus-area Democrat in Congress since 1982....

Kilroy has a very huge contingent of young, enthusiastic Democrats on the Ohio State campus.  The student group, College Democrats at The Ohio State University, is one of the largest college Democratic groups in the country.

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