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Becoming........
‘Mr. President’
Adam Hanover registered 584 people in his county to vote. But Adam, the
Republican Party’s youth and voter registration chairman for Shelby County,
Tennessee, doesn’t plan to cast a vote come election day. Not until 2006,
anyway. Adam is only 16.
The high school junior is an exception to the downward trend of political
involvement among America’s youth. The percentage of people 18 to 24 who
show up at the polls has dropped 13 percentage points since 1972, the first
presidential election after the voting age was lowered to 18, according to
the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement,
commonly referred to as CIRCLE. Studies have shown that youths are likely to
feel disengaged from the political process. ..... Read more
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What's new:
This high school junior is an exception to the downward trend
of political involvement among America’s youth.
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Bottom
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A political junkie at Ridgeway High School in
Memphis, Tenn., he earned the nickname “Mr. President” as a child
because of the way he would walk around his synagogue and shake
everyone’s hand. By 12, he had worked on his first political
campaign, cleaning up after parties for the 2000 Bush-Cheney effort
in Memphis. In 2002, Adam joined A.C. Wharton’s mayoral campaign in
Shelby County, attending fundraisers and distributing campaign
literature and signs.
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Apathy vs. Interest:
Youth political involvement varieavi.htmls.
Here are two individuals who fall on opposite ends of the spectrum
On Oct. 5, Cole Richter walked into a coffee shop perplexed and annoyed. The
19-year-old college sophomore said too many people stopped him at various
corners on the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois in an
attempt to register him to vote on the last day of registration.
“All those people out attempting to get people to vote... it’s just so
annoying every time they ask me if I am registered,” Cole said. “I want to
scream – ‘No, and I don’t want to!’”
Justin Cajindos, also a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Illinois,
was one of those “annoying” people on campus October 5. He was at a booth
for five hours, telling people it was their last chance to register to vote.
Along with the College Democrats, Cajindos managed to register 10,203 people
before the registration deadline.
Cole and Justin represent opposite ends of the spectrum. While Cole does not
concern himself with governmental affairs, Justin says he believes the right
to vote is indispensable......
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What's new:
Much effort has been made to increase youth voting and
interest within politics of the past decade; the numbers have been
on a steady incline.
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Bottom
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Has a substantial interest in the politics, we
found out why. |
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What's new:
Statistics say that younger people are traditionally more
apathetic to the political system for varying reasons.
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Line: Ricther is a student who has little interests in
politics, we found out why. |
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