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Quick Hits - October 14th: Millennials on the Move

  • If you are in DC today, Swing Semester is holding a happy hour/fundraiser to support their efforts to import Millennial activists into swing states. The event is from 6 pm - 8:30 pm at the Science Club, 2nd Floor, 1136 19th St NW (between L & M). Suggested donation is $20, RSVP here. This is a good organization and a good cause. Help them out if you can.
  • Millennial Alex Steed is traveling the country, interviewing young activists. Here's his first report from the road posted at YPulse. I'm hoping we can snag Alex for a few guest posts here as well.
  • New York Magazine runs a must-read profile of 30-year-old Nate Silver, the stats guru behind the indispensable FiveThirtyEight blog.
  • The ballots are in, and if 8 - 13 year-olds decided this election, Barack Obama would win by a whopping 57 - 39%, or so says the Scholastic poll of schoolchildren. Since its inception, the poll has correctly predicted all but 2 presidential elections.
  • Twice this week, myself and Future Majority made it into the New York Times. Pretty cool: Once, twice.
  • Finally, HCAN, the progressive Health Care coaltion, has an interesting new video they are about to put on the air. Apparently, McCain's health care plan is so radical, that most people refuse to believe it when the plan is explained to them:


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October 14th, 2008 1:35pm
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Scholastic

Submitted by Josh Koenig on Tue, 2008-10-14 16:19.

The future-future majority seems to be building as well.

Barring an EPIC FAIL on the part of an Obama administration (something I fear deeply, but who's counting) the GOP and the conservative movement are going to be seriously out in the wilderness for a while.

The question(s) will be:

1) Can a 21st century left wing political philosophy emerge and engender a governing national consensus?
2) How will the right re-invent itself to address a multi-ethnic, pluralistic, Global America?

If #1 is a no, we could see a return to the kind of trench-warfare politics which have typified the past 16 years, but simply will less and less popular support for anyone.

#2 is the real hum-dinger. I hope for a return of honest conservatism, but I think a Red Dawn Rerun is more likely.