Dean energizes younger voters

[ProudToBeLiberal]

By MAEVE RESTON
October 7, 2003

On the final stop of presidential hopeful Howard Dean's four-day drive to attract younger voters, the line stretched all the way out the door in the University of New Hampshire Student Center and down a long hallway.

There was some pushing, a little too much shoulder-rubbing and more than a few groans from the fresh-faced crowd of college students when Dean volunteers finally announced that they had reached auditorium capacity of about 800, and that the 200 or so latecomers were going to have to listen outside.

Welcome to the Generation Dean tour, where the old rules that young voters don't vote and don't care just don't seem to apply anymore.

It's a movement where a plainspoken former Vermont governor can draw a crowd of 1,000 college students to a University of Iowa gathering, as he did Sunday afternoon, or inspire a group of devoted volunteers to use up 73 buckets of colored chalk to advertise a University of Wisconsin rally in Madison, which drew some 5,000 young adults later Sunday.

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http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/politics/article/0,1406,KNS_356_2327979,00.html

[Scoopie]

1. Knoxnews... interesting

Nice... use my hometown newspaper to report an event... considering he hasn't been down HERE.

[ProudToBeLiberal]

2. actually scoopie

MAEVE RESTON is a writer from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
knoxville used her article

For example http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=DEAN-YOUTH-10-07-03&cat=PP used the story also.

[ProudToBeLiberal]

3. look here also

http://www.post-gazette.com/election/20031007dean1007p1.asp

I used the article for knoxville because it was within 12 hours when it was put out...so I can post it in LBN

[revcarol]

4. Yeah, this was posted yesterday.

Gotcha.

[ProudToBeLiberal]

5. where

if it is a dupe then please lock it up.

[ozone_man]

6. "He tells the truth. ... He gives you the meat,"

Kids are so smart these days.

[brainshrub]

7. Sorry, I don't trust younger voters

Sorry, I don't trust the younger voters. My experience is that they get all excited about a candidate, but then never show up to vote.
I'd rather have 100 senior citizens back me, than 1000 under 25. As least I can rely on the votes and contributions.
I know that sounds cynical, and mildly offensive. But that's just the way I feel.
BTW: I'm 100% behind Dean. Go Dean!!! :D

[JNelson6563]

8. I disagree

I think the way to not only win the hearts of young voters but to convince them to act is to get them personally invested.

Recruit them to volunteer. Ask for their input. Include them in meetings and other activities. The more personally invested they are the more they will work to achieve victory. The younger you can get someone invested in a cause the more likely they are to remain loyal.

Julie

[absolutezero]

9. what's not to trust?

I'm nineteen and i vote. The kids that don't go out and vote are the ones that don't show up to these rallys, and (atleast on my campus) the only ones that don't care enough to vote tend to berate me for badmouthing bush.