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Dems--Why Not Woo the Young? by Thomas Geoghegan
Geoghegan, Thomas | July 21, 2003 issue

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The article presents a scenario wherein the U.S. Democratic Party focuses its campaign efforts on the young people. Democrats continue to pitch their issues to the elderly, resulting in hardhearted, old people rejecting them again and again. A comparison of voting turnout percentage of all 21- to 24-year-olds in 1968 and in 2000 reveal that, in 1968, half the kids voted, while in 2000, it was 35 percent of kids. According to the author, young college kids in the present have issues that do affect them materially, such as the average loan debt for a college student.

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POLITICAL campaigns; POLITICAL parties; DEMOCRATIC Party (U.S.); YOUNG adults -- Political activity; COLLEGE students -- United States; UNITED States
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