Sentences with phrase «youth vote»

Before joining the Coleman staff team, Kevine worked with Black Youth Vote in Atlanta and led the Morehouse University Amnesty International chapter.

According to one survey on youth voting by a Tufts University group, in 2004, 47 percent of citizens 18 to 24 years old voted, while 66 percent of citizens 25 and older voted.

«Our plan is to help candidates this cycle, but more importantly build a following over the next 2 years by targeting the new youth vote as well as disenchanted New Yorkers.»

Other participating organizations include Black Youth Vote, Voto Latino, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), National Juvenile Justice Network and MomsRising.

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With Grimm winning reelection in 2012 by just 5 %, a mobilized youth vote might just be the nail in his coffin.

The likelihood of ever - increasing Tory majorities is also growing as a result of an ageing population and an ever - more disenfranchised youth vote (coupled with upcoming boundary changes).

Youth vote There's a general election to be fought and votes to be won, and that means it's time to grab a baby and find the nearest camera.

Worked on Obama's 2007 - 08 campaign starting as a college organizer based in Keene on the NH primary campaign, then on the Oregon primary campaign and in the general election as national youth vote director.

Youth vote stays home Altogether, the alliance of environmental groups consisting of the Environmental Defense Action Fund, NextGen Climate, the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund, LCV and the Sierra Club said it had reached 16 million «drop - off» voters through canvassing, phone calls and mailers.

And for those who didn't pay attention, he did actually win the youth vote in, I think, every single state among Democrats and he took 46 percent of the vote nationally.

The only hope for Romney at the convention will be to choose between Rubio in his hope to get Latino vote versus Paul and the youth vote.

I wish the youth vote would get the message.

To win back the youth vote, the Republican Party will have to do much more than find a fresh voice to say the same thing.

So while there is a lot of focus on the youth vote to help explain why Theresa May was stripped of her majority, while the Labour leader defied his critics to gain vote share and seats, this is a big part of the story.

In any case, Labour has bet big on the student and youth vote.

So, in practice it would never really have been possible for the youth vote to swing the vote to «Remain».].

This fragmentation could be significant as the youth vote was important to Obama's successes in 2008 and 2012.

You've got to wonder how much this true web - savviness (i.e., using the internet as an integrated part of the campaign rather than as a standalone channel) played into his historic turnout of the youth vote.

However, there is consensus that the youth vote played a significant if not decisive factor, particularly if «we take the young to mean anyone under 45.»

Opinion polls show that the youth vote favoured AV (in Australia as well).

South & East ClevelandThe Youth Vote We have read with interest the Campaign Doctor's view on getting the «youth vote» (TP, December).

You already addressed the problems with getting the «youth vote» (TP, December), but it is not fi rst and foremost a problem with getting us interested.

Although Labour's share of the youth vote did increase, this is not the same as a surge in youth turnout.

I could get the youth vote back onside - they're too young to remember all the shit I got away with last time.

Core to Edwards» argument around championing the youth vote is to reverse a «vicious cycle» of politicians overlooking the needs of the demographic due to poor turnout on polling day.

What seems unclear is what triggered this oversight — did young people stop voting because they felt politicians did not represent them, or did low turnout trigger the lackadaisical approach politicians took to targeting the youth vote?

«I think it can happen in two ways; either suddenly young people start voting again and then politicians will sit up and take notice and speak to them more directly, thinking about what they need, or; on their own volition politicians start going after the youth vote specifically trying to chase it.»

After decades struggling to engage the youth vote, the Electoral Commission had a major success with aboutmyvote.co.uk, which recorded 1.8 m visits, 40 % of them from 18 - 24s.

We are partnering with Sister District to help elect Democrats in swing districts all over the U.S., and building a program to promote the youth vote to help Democrats win everywhere.

And, an in - depth look at the youth vote in America.

Mitt Romney planned a speech Tuesday night in New Hampshire that his campaign said would signal the virtual conclusion of the GOP primary campaign, while President Barack Obama emphasized the themes of equal opportunity and Republican intransigence in courting the youth vote in speeches on college campuses.

In a bid to win the youth vote, the prime minister claimed that young people will be be hit hardest in the event of Brexit

This should be like a red rag to bull for the major parties and Ed Miliband has already made the youth vote a key element of his pre-election gambits by offering 16 and 17 year olds a vote, should he be elected.

With 194 marginal constituencies (those with majorities of 10 % or less) that can be won by an opposing party with just a 5 % swing, the youth vote could be the deciding factor in which party makes it into power on May 7th 2015.

Weah consistently captured the youth vote when he ran for president in 2005 and vice-president in 2011, but Cummings has made inroads into his support.

The Liberal Democrats are targeting the youth vote in this Gloucestershire town where they hope to overturn a Tory majority of 6,516.

A look at the NC exit polls shows that it was the youth vote, and pretty much them alone, who appear to have turned one of the two truly red states blue.

This time Mr Weah's campaign - under the Coalition for Democratic Change banner - appealed to the youth vote, while incumbent Vice-President Boakai was seen as old and out of touch.

The youth vote famously played a large role in Barack Obama's victory in 2008, but one of the big questions of this year's election is how young voter turnout will compare with that of the previous election.

And commentator Owen Jones linked the youth vote to former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg losing his seat.

It is likely the youth vote had a decisive influence in seats such as Manchester Central, Canterbury and Cambridge, which are also in the top 22 seats for increased turnout.

No official data exists for the scale of the youth vote but an NME - led exit poll suggests turnout among under - 35s rose by 12 points compared with 2015, to 56 %.

And how have (or how will) so - called «millennial movements» impact the youth vote?

On the debate about increased youth vote, some polling: YouGov also gives figures for the turnout among younger voters, finding that about 58 %

We're in so much trouble with the youth vote!»

As part of «Youth Vote» 91,» Minneapolis students ages 1218 were allowed to cast ballots for school - board candidates and to vote on their own separate questions during the Nov. 5 general election.

They want to educate students without imparting a particular political bias, especially because the youth vote was extremely partisan (2 - to - 1 for Obama) in the 2008 election.