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A new report from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University finds that, in 2014, youth voter turnout fell to its lowest level on record. Just 19.9 percent of 18- to 29-year-old citizens cast ballots last fall, compared with an average of 26.6 percent for the same age range in other midterm elections over the previous 40 years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/where-are-the-young-voters/2015/07/23/2781990e-316f-11e5-8f36-18d1d501920d_story.html?hpid=z5
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/where-are-the-young-voters/2015/07/23/2781990e-316f-11e5-8f36-18d1d501920d_story.html?hpid=z5
Posted 9 y ago
Responses: 13
I don't blame young voters for staying away. Look at the candidates. The Democrats are offering a couple (Clinton and Bernie) who look old enough to be my grandparents. The Republicans are younger, but stuck in the past. Now here's an idea. Come join me in the "Leave me the hell alone coalition". It sounds like what most young people want, doesn't it?
http://www.pjtv.com/series/the-leave-us-alone-coalition-get-government-out-of-our-lives-848/leave-us-the-heck-alone-government-should-stop-ruling-our-lives-11141/
http://www.pjtv.com/series/the-leave-us-alone-coalition-get-government-out-of-our-lives-848/leave-us-the-heck-alone-government-should-stop-ruling-our-lives-11141/
Leave Us the Heck Alone! Govt. Should Stop Ruling Our Lives!!! | PJTV
What do people who homeschool their kids, people who smoke e-cigs, and people who own guns have in common? They all want the government to leave them al...
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As a twenty-one year old, I personally don't vote because I don't really find myself informed on the candidates and what have ya. I don't know where to find the information, and I don't have the interest or energy to put into it. There's only one way you're truly going to know how someone is as a president, and that's by them becoming president and serving their term. I don't think there's enough information out there to begin with, and no matter what everyone's going to have their pros and cons. That's the biggest one with me, is how are the pros and cons going to weigh towards me, and I'm just not intelligent enough to figure that much out and, again, I just don't have interest in it. And perhaps MSG (Join to see) isn't far from the truth with most of my generation, but that certainly isn't all of it. CW4 Gary S. is much more accurate, I'd say.
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I agree with CW4 Gary S. that young folks just don't care. They just do not wish to get involved. Right now it's not whats important in their life. Oh the lesson we learn as we get older!
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