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...stakes are high for Democratic nominee and Arkansas Gov. William Jefferson Clinton. Strong support and turnout from young voters could mean the presidency. Clinton remembers well the power of young people campaigning door-to-door for candidates like George McGovern in 1968--Clinton was one of those young people...
...voter turnout is not the only obstacle for Democrats, who must also face the fact that many young people who voted in recent elections supported Republican candidates...
...turned out, the anxiety was unwarranted. The referendum passed with a resounding 69% majority. The turnout -- roughly half the 2.5 million eligible voters -- was considered normal...
Bush says he opposes the measure, which would supersede a patchwork of similar laws already on the books in 30 states, because he believes its looser registration requirements would lead to voter fraud. Less advertised but no less important is the White House's reluctance to boost voter turnout in a year when outsider Ross Perot has scrambled the Electoral College math and the throw-the-bums-out mood has reached epidemic proportion...
Right now it isn't. Only 33.2% of U.S. 18-to-21-year-olds voted in the last presidential election. That dismal turnout continued a steady decline since 1971, when the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to 18. In that year 48.3% of the eligible young cast a ballot. Says Sanford D. Horwitt, director of the Citizen Participation Project for People for the American Way: "It's as though someone has done a very successful 'Just Say No to Politics' campaign...