Quick Hits - May 27th
- First, I've been remiss in reporting that Mike Lux at Open Left is calling on all netroots progressives to work their asses off to register high-school seniors before they graduate. He's even got some ideas on how it might work. - Open Left
- Hillary Rosen, former head of the RIAA (and proponent of taking students, seniors, and assorted toddlers to court over filesharing) is now running the political operation at Huffington Post. WTF? - Boing Boing
- The Democrats are proposing that we pay soldiers who are stop-lossed into service (aka back door draft). Sounds good to me. - Daily Kos
- Ben Adler gives us a brief history of Drinking Liberally on the week in which the organization celebrates its 5 year anniversary. Congrats to Justin and Matt for all their accomplishments. - The Politico
- Georgia10 takes a stab at outlining what Ted Kennedy means to the Millennial Generation. - Daily Kos
- What can we expect from Generation "Z" ? - Profy.com
- Google: Viacom's YouTube lawsuit threatens the net. - Mashable!
- And finally, Joe gives us a run-down on the state of the race and why it's OK that the Clinton campaign keeps chugging along. And congrats to Joe on scoring the AlterNet gig. I believe this means that all 3 people who served as Web/Communications Director at MFA are now in the employ of AlterNet.
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2008 Youth Vote in Context
The following charts and graphs are meant to contextualize the unique role that young voters played in the 2008 election, and their increasingly important role in a winning electoral coalition:
2008 Youth Electoral Map
2004 Youth Electoral Map
Youth Vote Partisan Advantage: 2000 - 2008
Youth Vote Historical Support: 1976 - 2008
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Thanks Mike! No employ as of
Thanks Mike! No employ as of yet. We're just testing the waters, but that is indeed serendipitous.
I guess that means
Well, I guess that means that everyone should go watch Joe's video on the site and drive up traffic.
Here's hoping they pick you up.