Pleasing Generation O
5/11/2009

In his first 100 days, President Obama has taken steps to fulfill campaign promises to young Americans.

Keeping Obama's young army engaged
11/26/2008

The election's over, but Democrats want to hold on to under-30 voters as campaigning moves to governing.

Voter Coalition Celebrates Success
11/21/2008

In the middle of celebrating this year's voter turnout at CSU, officials from VoteCSU! and national election organizations said they were excited to report that the national youth vote increased by 3.4 million people from 2004.

Election Day lively all along North Shore
11/11/2008

LYNN-Strategies used to reach voters on Election Day ranged widely across the North Shore as activists sought to corral the youth vote through an email barrage and the support from the elderly by visiting senior housing centers.

Youth Turnout Higher than Ever
11/21/2008

The 2008 presidential election saw 52-53 percent of eligible 18-29-year-olds cast their votes, an increase of 3.4 million from the 2004 election, according to The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE).

ConnPIRG Boosts Youth Vote
11/21/2008

Trinity College students were part of one of the largest youth voter turnouts in U.S. history at this year's presidential election. An increase of one to six percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 voted, according to preliminary polls released by the nonpartisan Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at Tufts University. In the months leading up to last week's election, the New Voter's Project, a division of Connecticut Peer Interest Research Group (ConnPIRG), helped rally Trinity students and register them to vote.

Students turn out to vote in record numbers
11/ 8/2008

One of President Michael Hogan’s First Year Experience students rushed into class late Nov. 4. He explained that he had been working the polls at the Mansfield Community Center, where students were waiting up to three hours in line to vote.

Looking at how Obama brought youth to polls
11/11/2008

WASHINGTON–For months before Barack Obama's presidential victory, his campaigners knocked on doors, emailed, Facebooked, texted and blogged. They snapped cellphone pictures of their friends in Obama T-shirts and urged them to go to the polls.

Obama Elected
11/21/2008

Student organizations are heralding record voting registration among UC Irvine community members with 1,805 voting early and 2,342 voting on Election Day, Nov. 4.

Election 2008: Second-largest youth voter turnout in American history
11/21/2008

Several hundred Carnegie Mellon students gathered in Rangos Ballroom on Tuesday night to watch election night coverage and weather the final hours before Barack Obama was elected as the first African-American president of the United States. But the election of 2008 was historic for another reason.

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