Really Young Delegates

I just arrived in Denver today for the Convention Extravaganza. I'm here a bit early, mostly to cause more trouble.

In reading the news for the day I saw a great piece in TIME that features some of the youngest delegates that will be voting next week.

"Gilbert-Pederson isn't yet old enough to vote. At 17, he will be the youngest Democratic delegate in Denver--and one of several hundred millennials who will descend on a convention that boasts the most 36-and-under delegates in decades."

But wait... there's more

"Other young Denver delegates will also be busy keeping their networks linked in. Jason Rae, 21, of Rice Lake, Wis.--the party's youngest superdelegate, a co-chairman of the DNC Youth Council and a political-science student at Marquette University--says he has promised to call friends from the floor to "keep them in the process." It's the young wonk's version of holding up a cell phone at a rock concert so a far-away fan can listen.

Sean Stimmel, 19, a delegate from Los Alamos, N.M., will miss the first three days of his sophomore year at New Mexico Tech to blog from Denver for friends and donors. A year ago, Stimmel never read political news, but after a neighbor pushed him to volunteer for Obama, he is flirting with a political career of his own someday."

This might be one of the latest attempts by TIME to cover young people ... which I guess news agencies are starting to do now.

More to come as the week progresses. Hopefully we can meet up with some of these great delegates and get some FM interviews on.