(28 Aug) - Young voters tend to lean Democrat. Conservatives are trying to win them over https://www.npr.org/2023/08/27/1196219597/young-voters-tend-to-lean-democrat-conservatives-are-trying-to-win-them-over #YoungVoters #Democrats #Conservatives #WinThemOver #PoliticalEngagement #YouthVote #Politics #News https://mastodon.sdf.org/@uspolitics/110969746707345841

Young voters tend to lean Democrat. Conservatives are trying to win them over

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/27/1196219597/young-voters-tend-to-lean-democrat-conservatives-are-trying-to-win-them-over

#YoungVoters #Democrats #Conservatives #WinThemOver #PoliticalEngagement #YouthVote #Politics #News

Instead of raising the minimum voting age, let's lower the maximum. (Well, establish one.) People over 65 (self included) shouldn't decide the future when we won't be here for it. (US life expectancy = 76.4 years in 2023) #youthvote

Wisconsin’s organizers are a *machine*, and they didn’t come to play.

“NextGen America: Youth vote surges in Wisconsin Supreme Court election”

https://www.wispolitics.com/2023/next-gen-america-youth-vote-surges-in-wisconsin-supreme-court-election/

#YouthVote #Students #Elections #Democracy

A year ago, there was a lot of room to work with:

“In Ohio, where youth could decide the US Senate race, fewer than 25% of 18-year-olds in the state’s largest counties are registered to vote”

https://www.thecivicscenter.org/blog/2022/3/28/in-ohio-where-youth-could-decide-the-us-senate-race-fewer-than-25-18-year-olds-in-the-states-largest-counties-are-registered-to-vote

#Ohio #YouthVote #Elections #Democracy

A year ago, there was a lot of room to work with:

https://www.thecivicscenter.org/blog/2022/3/28/in-ohio-where-youth-could-decide-the-us-senate-race-fewer-than-25-18-year-olds-in-the-states-largest-counties-are-registered-to-vote

#Ohio #YouthVote #Elections #Democracy

There are roughly 2.2 to 2.4 freshmen students starting college in the US this Fall, and likely the same in Fall 2024. Get them registered to vote. Look at Wisconsin and Ohio, they have the playbook.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2023/02/02/freshman-enrollment-first-time-2019#:~:text=Nearly%202.34%20million%20freshmen%20enrolled,the%20COVID%2D19%20pandemic%20began.

#YouthVote #Elections #Democracy

@waitnwallflower

Blaming the Democratic Party for young Americans' refusal to care about their future only exacerbates the problem.

In 2022, the Dems had just finished the most productive Congress since the 1960s, despite having only 50 senators. The GOP offered only a cruel, hateful war against women, LGBTQ people, POC, democracy, public health, science, and Earth itself. Faced with that stark choice, only 27% of voters under age 30 showed up to vote.

#USPol #VoteBlue #YouthVote

I don't know what to make of this poll.
I mean, this doesn't mean they identify "republican".
But, um, do something, Dem Party, to ensure GenZ gets engaged again.
#USpol
#VoteBlue
#YouthVote

Is Gen Z Coming for the GOP?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/gen-z-millennials-vote-republican/674328/

#TheAtlantic #GenZGOP #MillennialVoters #RepublicanParty #PoliticalShifts #YouthVote #Politics #News

You can read this article via the link below without a subscription #OpenAccess

#NYT: Many Young Voters Bitter Over Biden’s Support of Willow Oil Drilling

By Lisa Friedman

#YouthVote #ClimateChange #Biden

I'm an older person, but agree Biden is pretty crappy on climate change. I wonder, though, about premise of article that young people won't come out to vote for Biden because of CC—that seems to be ignoring abortion elephant in the room, maybe?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/24/climate/willow-biden-climate-voters.html?unlocked_article_code=ioaevfrNOiE8d6qhm1D1anNpgqrY80EjCOy60zMgZ5Yo2MhIR6n6lbGyeoEGdqjx2n5vX7YtQ_lfUtay1Gd-x93Pw5ir41ihUlKkujsHaa5jWGIZfgnKRFhJXS2WOGPDqKji39h5IMO3jCeSANDyvd1x6BpZWV_x1xNRFDb5cUH_-lg8tUOCDl-WpqLVUyNrJ1dUZ0Zky45rwWAhbnXNuAntDfgMBZjbzhYDb-Vxs7SST1aMwp1wiZOy0c4yrrzOvV2LKlbYjt5XRd8np-hBETQwl40fKY3LAzSGKfYYcDuJgEY7igSVy3srETrPkcJlZu9rDIVMk1HJggZFWdIsgFBQYgC1&giftCopy=4_Disclaimer&smid=url-share

EXCLUSIVE: #Trump atty #CletaMitchell discusses her #2024Presidential targets for #voter suppression methods against #overseas & #YouthVote, early #voting, etc -->

#WashingtonPost #news #Politics #Conservatives #GOP #VoterSuppression #Expats #CollegeStudents
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/20/cleta-mitchell-voting-college-students/

RT @BenWessel
I'm obsessed with this chart. The #youthvote changed the game in Wisconsin.

Major shout out to heroes & sheroes like @TeddyLandis1, @bkoerth, @RiseFreeOrg's Jason, the whole @lit_wi team, @michaeljtate, @benwikler, @Lnsciales, @NextGenAmerica, & so many others. https://twitter.com/TeddyLandis1/status/1645834835162693636

RT @Students4Brand
Only 2 DAYS left in this election and the #YouthVote will be the deciding factor. Let's GOTV for @Brandon4Chicago : Early voting today (4/3) and voting at your ward's polling place tomorrow (4/4). #BrandonIsBetter https://twitter.com/Brandon4Chicago/status/1642364621095878656

'...community colleges — where 33% of young people in the U.S. are educated — are often underfunded and neglected by their respective states. ... But targeting these schools and granting them the resources they need to make voting easy is crucial. “This is predominantly where young people of color and lower-income people get educated, and it’s clear that these barriers are set up to prevent them from being able to vote.” '

https://truthout.org/articles/voter-suppression-laws-are-targeting-youth-but-they-are-fighting-back/

#VotingRights #YouthVote

Young #Voters Won the Midterms… What we can see now is that the historic levels of youth turnout we saw in 2018 and 2020 were not just flukes, but a movement. Once is a fluke. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is a pattern — Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez #quote #YouthVote #GenZ #Democrats

RT @eve_levenson@twitter.com

Great article from @racheljanfaza@twitter.com on what the White House (h/t @HannahBristol46@twitter.com) has done right with young Americans engagement including digitally and with listening sessions + where there is room for growth.
#youthvote #YouthInGov
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/white-house-biden-young-voters-listening-sessions

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/eve_levenson/status/1615898887637581838

Over 80% of voters age 18-21 did not vote for a #republican candidate. No wonder the #goptraitors want to stop the #youthvote

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/proposed-constitutional-amendment-may-raise-pennsylvania-voting-21-years-old/

RT @TheCivicsCenter@twitter.com

🚨HOT JOB ALERT🚨
DYK: 4 million Americans turn 18 every year! We're on a mission to get every high school student in the country registered to vote. Join us! #youthvote
Details here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FRf8smg-s0JUcLV1rua0fSGDwyjkYjSb/view

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TheCivicsCenter/status/1614030394575278082

Young people showed up in a big way at the polls: The US just saw the second-highest turnout in #midterms, among 18- to 29-year-olds, in 30 years

Is this a sea change?
https://theconversation.com/near-record-high-numbers-of-young-people-voted-during-the-midterms-signaling-a-possible-shift-or-exception-in-voting-trends-194957

#News #USPolitics #Midterms #YouthVote #Politics