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Youth power! What's driving so many young people to the polls this primary season?

Scholastic, Inc. - 2008-04-08

Sujatha Jahagirdar knew it would happen. The Los Angeles resident was in Des Moines, Iowa, on January 3 for the first presidential caucuses. Waking at 5 a.m., the youth-vote organizer spent the day in a flurry of activity. One minute she was being interviewed by C-SPAN, the next she was organizing a phone bank, or texting first-time voters. After the polls closed, Sujatha joined friends from Rock the Vote to watch the returns. Her instinct had proved right: The youth vote was going to be huge!