ABC News on the Youth Vote; YVS's New Handbook; "FredHeads"
- ABC News is running a long piece about the youth vote - what the major candidates are doing to reach out, and what recent studies suggest are solid tactics for reaching young voters. The piece also has some rather unfortunate headlines that repeat a lot of tired ideas about the youthvote - most egregiously the article repeats the just plain wrong idea that young people didn't show up in 2004. Despite that, it's a really good piece. If you read nothing else today, read this. If you've got time, write a letter to the author about the bad stuff.
- Yesterday Young Voter Strategies released a new manual on tactics for reaching young voters - including case studies on what worked in 2006. I'm working on a big post about this, and it should be ready on Friday.
- You know all that crap about how more young people participate in American Idol than in their democracy? Well a new study by Tufts University says it's just that: crap. (Hat tip Rock the Vote Blog).
- Finally, while listening to a podcast of Meet the Press this morning, I heard conservative strategist Mary Matalin shill for Fred Thompson about how the youth vote was hot for his candidacy. She said something to the effect of there being legions of "FredHeads" waiting to volunteer. Add this to the collection of nicknames thrown at youth supporers - BarackStars, DoddPods . . . I'm sure there's one for each candidate. What's up with that?
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Responded to ABC Story
I pushed some CIRCLE Data their way, so hopefully they get the clue.
People can’t understand that Millennials shouldn’t be judged simply because other generations increased their vote as well.
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That is great! Let us know if you get a response.
the nicknames
I wonder who’s coming up with them, the supporters or the consultants?
[[http://www.losethelabel.org/user/3|-6.00, -4.15]]
You're damn right the FredHeads are coming!
But it’s nothing to be afraid of.
We’re just coming to bring you an awesome president on our backs!
Go Fred!!!
[[http://fredheadsusa.org|FredHeads USA]]
Yeah Right
Good luck with all that…
Go (jump of a bridge) Fred!