the youngest candidate

Jason Pollock, head of the project The Youngest Candidate just told informed us that YouTube has chosen their trailer as the top of their entertainment section RIGHT NOW!

If you haven't seen the trailer here it is again

Congrats to everyone at TYC and indeed to all of the young candidates seeking election this spring and in 2010.

• Campus Politico notes that there is a large drop-off of voting among young people in down-ballot races. Matt Stoller at Open Left lets us know that the Obama campaign is hoping to change that. He posts a copyof an Obama campaign email reminding him to vote down ballot.
• Pew Research provides a preview of how exit polling will be conducted on Tuesday, and how early voting and an influx of new voters will be factored into those polls. Good reading for those who will be looking at the numbers on E-Day.
• The website for The Youngest Candidate, an excellent film that follows four 18 year-olds as they run for public office, is now live. It's got some great design work done by Shepard Fairey
• Tim Fernholz at Tapped thinks that campgain widgets like the Obama tax calculator are the future of issue campaigning.
• The folks at Overdetermined, a new blog about data analysis, have some pre-election gallows humor:

• The whack jobs at Human Events detail the "pernicious effects" of voter registration drives on American civic life. Ooh scary.
• Obama's in-game X Box ads cost $44,000. Chump change when you raise $150m in one month.
• Mobilize.org spotlights a new report on college affordability.
• Here's a late entry - Al Gore's address to the Power Vote coalition. My gut says this was probably very motivating to the diehards in the coalition who are doing GOTV and signing people up to take the Power Vote pledge. I found it a little dry coming after Obama's program last night, but I was glad to see Gore speak positively about youth involvement rather than advocating for ineffective strategies from his youth: