Quick Hits - September 25th - Pure Goodness Edition

Hold onto your hats. Every link today is pure youthy awesomeness and should be read. In no particular order, but with extra commentary:

  • Conservative reporter Carl Cannon, writing at conservative outlet Reader's Digest, reports that pollsters are probably underestimating the youth vote this year.
  • The LA Times reports that Obama wins the Xbox/Rock the vote primary, but wonders if young gamers will actually vote. As we know from the recent Pew study, the answer is yes.
  • Our own Sarah Burris has an excellent piece over at WireTap grading the RNC and the DNC for their inclusion of youth. It's comprehensive and enlightening and unexpected to see where each convention excelled and where they inevitably fell short.
  • There is a lot of chatter lately among youth organizers about finding ways to reach high school students. One answer may be Channel One, the news/advertising network played in so many homerooms across the country. The channel recently launched One Vote 2008 to cover the elections. Now if we could only get our folks in front of their cameras . . .
  • Youth Vote '08 covers the launch of Generation WE, a new study on Millennials. We'll have more about this in the coming days.
  • In the Washingtonian, Garrett Graff thinks that Millennials will cost McCain the election.
  • Michael Moore's Slacker Uprising is now available for download.
  • Rock the Vote's new poll gets some coverage from UPI and The Nation.
  • In cooperation with PayPal, MySpace deploys a new system to raise money for nonprofits through its network.