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| Student PIRG New Voters Project staff stationed at polling locations near Indiana campuses today are beginning to hear from young voters turned away at the polls for a failure to meet voter identification laws upheld by the Supreme Court last week. | |
| High young voter turnout rates seen in the presidential contest to date persisted in yesterday’s closely-watched Pennsylvania primary. | |
| Since 2004, PennPIRG’s New Voters Project has been among the state’s leading non-partisan youth voter mobilization programs. Founded with the goal of increasing youth political participation, we believe that increasing young voter rates seen over the past several election cycles bode well for democracy for three key reasons. | |
| Since 2004, Ohio PIRG’s New Voters Project has been among the state’s leading non-partisan youth voter mobilization program. Founded with the goal of increasing youth political participation, we believe that these increasing young voter rates bode well for democracy for three key reasons. | |
| Youth turnout surged in key primary states last night, continuing a striking trend started in the first presidential contests of 2008. “In all the noise of last night’s election, one message was heard loud and clear,” said Sujatha Jahagirdar Program Director with the Student PIRGs’ New Voters Project. “Young people are tuning in and turning out.” | |
| In an effort to tap into a new generation of voters that is plugged in, on-line and networked, youth vote organizers will send 20,000 young voters a text reminder to vote on the eve of Super Tuesday. The ‘text out the vote’ push comes on the heels of a joint Student PIRGs’ New Voters Project and Credo Mobile study released this fall that found such messages can increase youth turnout. | |
| Youth vote surges seen in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina continued into the Sunshine State last night, with young voter turnout more than tripling over 2000 levels. | |
| Buoyed by a South Carolina youth vote that nearly tripled over the last Democratic primary, young people are ramping up their efforts to turn out their peers in Super Tuesday states. From California to Colorado; New Mexico to New Jersey, students leaders are using Facebook, Flickr, text-messaging and are pounding the pavement to ensure the youth vote is head loud and clear on February 5th. | |
| Youth voter turnout surged by 25 percent in New Hampshire, with 53,000 more young people turning to the polls last night than in 2004. The increase in youth turnout represented more than seven times the margin of victory by Democratic winner Clinton. Once again youth were critical in deciding the winners - with McCain winning the youth vote on the Republican ticket and Clinton winning the 25-29 year old age bracket, edging out Obama who won the 18-24 year old vote. | |
| After several months of mobilizing their peers and reaching out to Presidential candidates to get them to pay attention, young volunteers are seeing the rewards of their efforts with record youth turnout in the New Hampshire primaries. According to CNN exit polls, youth will account for nearly 18 percent of the Democratic primary turnout and 14 percent of the Republican primary turnout. | |
| Despite the winter break caucus date, cold temperatures, long lines and delays due to high turnout, young people flocked to the caucuses and made their voices heard. According to CNN entrance polls, youth will account for nearly 22 percent of the Democratic caucus turnout, a five percent increase over 2004. Fifty-seven percent of youth voted for projected Democratic winner Barack Obama, while 40 percent voted for projected Republican winner Mike Huckabee. | |
| According to a new analysis youth turnout in Iowa (17-29 year olds) more than tripled over 2004, with 65,000 young people turning out to caucus. The youth vote also decided the caucus winners. Fifty-seven percent of youth voted for Democratic winner Barack Obama, while 40 percent voted for Republican winner Mike Huckabee. Iowa PIRG students were critical in boosting the youth vote, personally contacting and turning out thousands of youth in the final days leading up to the caucuses. | |
| Today, 250 Iowa PIRG student leaders are calling, texting, and throwing Rock the Caucus parties at caucus locations across the state to rally thousands of their peers to turn out to vote. Despite the date of the caucuses and recent suggestions that some Iowa youth shouldn’t caucus, young Iowans are gearing up to participate in the nation’s first Presidential contest of 2008. | |
| In response to a column posted today by the Des Moines Register and statements recently issued by several presidential candidates, we as Iowa student leaders, are urging all of the presidential candidates to encourage youth turnout, instead of discouraging youth participation in the Iowa caucuses. The full statement is below. | |
| A new report released today found that restrictive voting practices practiced in states such as New Mexico and Arizona may depress youth turnout. Entitled "Restrictive Voter Registration Laws: Impacts and Short Term Mitigation Strategies," the report found while mitigation efforts can overcome restrictive voting laws to some degree, uniform federal standards are necessary to fully protect the ability of young people to vote. | |
| Students at the University of Southern California won a video contest to pose a key question to Senator McCain live on MTV tonight. | |
| Des Moines – Today Iowa Secretary of State Michael A. Mauro, Rock the Vote, and Iowa PIRG's New Voters Project announced a joint nonpartisan effort, Rock the Caucus, to encourage young voter participation in the 2008 Iowa presidential caucuses. | |
| A new study from researchers at Princeton and the University of Michigan shows that young voters who were sent text message reminders to vote, on the eve of Election Day 2006, were significantly more likely to vote than those who didn’t receive a text message reminder. The study, which relied on voter registration data from the Student PIRGs’ New Voters Project and Working Assets Wireless, found that sending a text message reminder to vote provided a 4 percent boost in youth voter turnout rates. | |
| On Monday night, Democratic Presidential candidates will face questions sent in via YouTube for the first CNN-YouTube debate. The online phenomenon, where anyone can upload and share video clips, is popular with young people, who are paying significantly more attention to the Presidential election than in 2004 and voicing their concerns about issues that they care about. But young people aren’t just getting online to engage in the elections, they’re also hitting the campaign trail to engage the Presidential candidates on the issues that they care about. | |
| On the heels of a new report that predicts disastrous consequences for the country’s national parks as a result of global warming, young people in throughout the country are bringing their concerns about global warming directly to all of the Presidential candidates. | |
| According to the poll, 58 percent of young people say that they are paying attention to the 2008 elections, compared to just 35 percent at this point in 2004. In addition, nearly 75 percent of young people say that they are registered to vote, and of those who aren’t registered, 77 percent say that they will register before the 2008 election. | |
| Slurping hot ramen noodles at legendary DC eating establishment Pete’s Diner, a crowd of young activists gathered for a different kind of political fundraiser. Dubbed a “time-raiser” by organizers, the event was designed to recruit more young people to press the Presidential candidates to outline their plans to address key youth issues. | |
| Today, South Carolina students were hot on the trail of both Democratic and Republican candidates to ask all of the candidates: "What’s Your Plan?" on key issues such as global warming and college affordability. | |
| Student leaders here and in all four of the early primary states called upon the presidential candidates to focus on young voters by outlining detailed plans on key youth issues. The national campaign, called "What’s Your Plan?" asks candidates to reach out to youth on two priority issues – global warming and higher education. | |
| Youth vote surges seen in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina continued into the Sunshine State last night, with young voter turnout more than tripling over 2000 levels. | |
| Youth vote surges seen in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina continued into the Sunshine State last night, with young voter turnout more than tripling over 2000 levels. | |
| On the heels of the most successful youth voter mobilization efforts ever in a midterm election, the Student Public Interest Research Groups’ (PIRG) New Voters Project is releasing a new analysis of its 2004 efforts to boost youth turnout, and of the particular techniques that contributed to the project’s success. The study offers new insights for those who wish to mobilize the increasingly valuable votes of the 18-24 year old demographic. | |
| According to a new analysis youth turnout in Iowa (17-29 year olds) more than tripled over 2004, with 65,000 young people turning out to caucus. The youth vote also decided the caucus winners. Fifty-seven percent of youth voted for Democratic winner Barack Obama, while 40 percent voted for Republican winner Mike Huckabee. Iowa PIRG students were critical in boosting the youth vote, personally contacting and turning out thousands of youth in the final days leading up to the caucuses. | |
| Average young voter turnout among college students in precincts targeted by the Student PIRGs’ New Voters Project doubled over the 2002 election, more than six times the national average for young adults with turnout in some precincts increasing up to five times over 2002, according to an Election Night analysis by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE). | |
| Young voter turnout in a set of targeted precincts increased by an average of 50% over the 2002 election, and by as much as 111% in some precincts, according to an Election Night analysis by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), continuing a national trend of growing young voter participation that began in the 2004 election. | |