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...presidential election, is the time to remember that we must take advantage of the political and civil liberties that we do enjoy. We further must decide how we want our generation to be remembered: as passive and nonparticipatory, or as passionate and engaged? Whether we individually choose to vote for Obama, Huckabee, Clinton, Romney, or “Other,” in order to prove young adults a powerful national force, we must vote. Admittedly, for Harvard students this may be less of an issue than for others (there is a positive correlation between level of education and voter...
...that young Americans don’t take interest in current issues or hold opinions; on the contrary, according to the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, youth tend to be both less satisfied with the status quo and more optimistic about the future than adults. When we do vote, we tend to value individual freedoms over institutional stability (think, for example, of the debate over music censorship). Yet when it comes to political participation, whether it’s at the polls or through protests, we are shockingly passive. Gone is the daring sense of activism that characterized...
...only genuine "change" candidate in the race. But after a surprise second-place showing in the Iowa caucuses, the former North Carolina Senator failed to parlay that momentum into a stronger-than-expected showing in the New Hampshire primary. Edwards came in third place, garnering around 17% of the vote behind Hillary Clinton's 39% and Barack Obama's 37%. "Up until now one half of 1% of the country has voted," Edwards told supporters in Manchester Tuesday night. "Ninety-nine percent plus have not voted and we need to hear from them. We have had too much in America...
...Edwards is still betting that the message of change - a message represented by both him and Obama - will decide the campaign. "The two change candidates in Iowa got nearly 70% of the vote between them," Trippi said. "The two change candidates in New Hampshire received nearly 60% of the vote." They are betting that if they can last, they can swing all those votes against Clinton. But, then again, so is Obama...
...climb that turned out to be particularly steep with women voters. Though Obama beat Clinton among men, she bested him by a wider margin among women (especially unmarried women), who vote in New Hampshire in unusually large numbers. And while Obama did better than Clinton among independents, that swing group of voters did not appear to vote in proportions that many expected - and of those, more than expected seemed to opt for McCain. Clinton prevailed amongst registered Democrats, a trend that could be crucial in many states whose upcoming primaries are closed to independents...