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New Rock the Vote Poll: Young Voters Enthusiasm Grows, Palin Fails to Move Youth Support
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Sep 24, 2008 09:46am |
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| News Date | Wednesday, September 24, 2008 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | One of the big questions on everyone's mind this year is "just how important will the youth vote be this year?" I just got off a conference call in which Rock the Vote and pollsters Celinda Lake (D) and Ed Goeas (R) discussed the findings of their new poll of young voters. Conducted between September 8 and 17 and sampling 650 18 - 29 year olds on both cell phone and landlines, this is probably the only reliable poll out there at the moment with a sizable enough sample to accurately reflect the attitudes of young voters in the post-convention electorate.
Short version: Not much has changed since February, when Rock the Vote released it's last poll. Despite the conventions, the slew of attack ads, and the introduction of the VPs into the race, young voters are more engaged in the election than ever before, they still overwhelmingly identify as Democrats, Sen. Obama still holds a large, double digit lead over McCain among this cohort (56 - 29%), and while Sarah Palin's pick as the VP is energizing Young Republicans, it has failed to move new young voters into the Republican camp. In essence, if the election were held today, young voters would not only turnout in record numbers, they would vote for Barack Obama by overwhelming margins
That's only scratching the surface of the wealth of data offered in Rock the Vote's poll. There is a ton of information here, and I'll try to unpack it as succinctly as possible in this much more wonkier version: |
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