Jan 3, 2008
This afternoon, more than 450 high school students crowded into Rock the Vote’s Rock the Caucus parties at Valley and Lincoln High Schools in Des Moines, and then headed off to participate in their first Iowa caucuses. The big turnout bolsters other evidence...
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Jan 3, 2008
Young voters turned out in big numbers to the Iowa caucuses tonight and propelled both of the winning candidates to victory. Among 17-29 year old Democrats, 57% supported the winner, Barack Obama, and among 17-29 year old Republicans, 40% supported the winner, Mike...
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Dec 28, 2007
What: Rock the Vote’s Rock the Caucus program aims to increase turnout to the Iowa caucuses among Iowa’s youngest voters –17- and 18-year old high school seniors– a key subset of the under-30 “youth vote,” a group much-coveted by...
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Dec 19, 2007
Texting all candidates, advisers, pundits and political junkies. During an election season in which more than one-fifth of eligible voters will be younger than 30, AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) and Rock the Vote today announced plans to use mobile technology in 2008 to...
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Dec 11, 2007
“Over the past week, several campaigns, candidates and political reporters have stated that college students who moved to Iowa to attend school should not vote in the Iowa caucuses.”These statements are a frustrating and disappointing attempt to suppress...
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Nov 1, 2007
Eighteen- to 30-year-old voters turned out in large numbers for elections in 2004 and 2006 ‘ and according to a new nationwide poll from Rock the Vote, WWE”s Smackdown Your Vote!’, and Sacred Heart University, that trend is likely to continue in 2008...
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