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Article: Mobilize the millennials: what campaigns can do to fire up young people.(CONSULTANTS' CORNER)
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- Campaigns & Elections
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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If you listen to the rhetoric of most political candidates, you would think that issues concerning young people would be at the forefront of the national policy agenda. We've been hearing since junior high graduation that we're the future of our nation, yet rarely do we see political leaders speak to our interests, let alone make policy that is positive for us. We're strapped with school debt and largely uninsured, the majority of us oppose the war, and many of us feel that our elected officials and candidates have no idea what is going on in our lives.
It's easy and logical for young people to be cynical about politics, and that's a problem for anyone who wants ...