One State Where The Youth Vote Really Does Matter: Colorado<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVoters under the age of 30 comprised 18 percent of Colorado\u2019s turnout in 2008, outnumbering voters over the age of 65, and that injection of youth helped hand President Barack Obama a comfortable nine…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It's going to be interesting to see how the campaigns approach different demographic groups during the coming presidential election, particularly from an age standpoint. I find it difficult to believe that the Colorado youth vote would trend Rodney, except among die-hard Young Republicans. A greater risk for the Obama team is apathy and\/or disillusionment that … Continue reading “The Youth Vote in 2012”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-27521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24901,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/27\/suppressing-the-youth-vote.html","url_meta":{"origin":27521,"position":0},"title":"Suppressing the Youth Vote","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 27-Dec-11 9:09am","format":false,"excerpt":"Not that I expect that young voters will be as enthusiastic for Obama as they were in 2008 -- but the GOP isn't taking any chances. 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