Quick Hits -- October 25th: Voting and Voter Rights Edition

Your Saturday afternoon reading.

• Larry Sabato, Director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics and Professor of Politics, makes a YouTube video for students, advising them on why and how to get involved in the 2008 election:
  
• Record voter registration in Michigan (with the college town counties forming the list of top five counties with the largest number of new registered voters).
• Florida A&M celebrates the start of early voting in Florida in a big way: one thousand faculty, students, and staff, led by the president, cast votes.
• The GOP must have missed the memo: voter suppression isn't "in" this election cycle. Sorry.
• Rock the Vote prepares for the youth vote tsunami.
• Ypulse, partnering with Alex Steed on his tour across America to meet and talk with other young activists, has a post regarding conversations with young Millennial business leaders engaging in socially responsible business practices.
• Voting on the weekend? An op-ed in the Times explores the benefits of holding two election days -- on Saturday and Sunday -- the first weekend of November.
• A global consensus: 90 percent of youth around the world want to see action taken on climate change.
• A new round of polling of gamers on Xbox Live yields a predictable result: their top concern is jobs and the economy.
• Sarah wrote about Generation We this week, the new site with a plethora of data on Millennials and a free copy of the book by Eric Greenberg. It's Getting Hot in Here has more coverage.
• A great piece by Adrian Talbott on Millennials' engagement thus far this election cycle at Huffington Post.