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24 Nov 09

Who Voted in 2008? - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

  • The
    highlights: 64% of the 204 million voting-age Americans voted, up about
    6 million in number and 4 percentage points from 2004.  Historically
    underrepresented groups made gains in this election.  Non-whites made
    up more than 90% of the increase in the total number of voters.  The
    authors conclude that had non-whites voted at the same percentage as
    whites, more than 5 million more votes would have been cast in 2008. 
    The study, by Douglas Hess and Jody Herman, finds that had voters under
    30 voted at the same rates as their counterparts over 30, more than 7
    million additional ballots would have been cast.
11 Nov 09

Educate boys, or they'll go to war | FP Passport

  • A World Bank research
    paper     posted today finds that countries with a high proportion of young
    males with low levels of secondary education are significantly more conflict-prone.
  • "youth bulges"
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07 Nov 09

Easier To Get Than Beer - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

  • I actually feel better
    knowing my child is with trusted friends, ingesting measured substances
    than on a corner at night buying an illegal substance from a stranger.
  • As a teenager, I witnessed firsthand a world in which it was easier to
    get marijuana than alcohol. I don't just say this now because it suits
    my agenda; it's the truth. If my friends wanted booze for a party, they
    planned days ahead. If they wanted pot, they just made a phone call.
    The difference was that old, but very true, cliché that drug dealers
    don’t check ID. That's why research has repeatedly shown that teenagers
    have easier access
    to marijuana than beer. What can never be quantified, however, are all
    the other harms that go along with this vast underground, underage drug
    economy that continues to thrive thanks to marijuana prohibition.
06 Nov 09

Matthew Yglesias » Stimulus and the Future

  • those who claim fiscal restraint amidst a depression is a favor to young people don’t know what they’re talking about
  • Deficit hawks like to complain that today’s young people will end up having to pay higher taxes to service the debt we’re running up right now. But anyone who really cared about the prospects of young Americans would be pushing for much more job creation, since the burden of high unemployment falls disproportionately on young workers — and those who enter the work force in years of high unemployment suffer permanent career damage, never catching up with those who graduated in better times.
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05 Nov 09

Who Voted For Hamas? - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

  • I think another issue here that’s rarely noted in these discussions is
    that the median age in the Gaza Strip is 17.4 years. This is, in other
    words, primarily a population of children we’re talking about. They
    didn’t vote for anyone.
23 Apr 09

Pollster.com: Young Voters, Taxes, and the Government

  • On Monday, I posted about the divergence in attitudes toward homosexuality between younger voters and older voters. Indeed, the beliefs held by young voters on gay marriage and homosexuality also differ greatly from the position of the Republican Party, presenting a challenge to the party's ability to grow long-term. However, this was tempered with the reminder that issue salience is key; just because a group of voters disagrees with the GOP on an issue does not preclude those voters from voting Republican or becoming Republican if the issue is not a high priority.
  • The economy
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