Youth turnout sets record
On Election Day, Yale voters were everywhere: sticking on “I voted” stickers, spilling out of the Afro-American Cultural Center to phonebank for Sen. Barack Obama, watching election returns and rallying on Old Campus. But they were just a small part of the record-breaking mass of young people who turned out to send Obama to the Oval Office.
At least 2.2 million more young voters cast ballots this year than in 2004, according to preliminary numbers released by voter research groups yesterday. That number represents a 2.7 percent increase over the 2004 participation of eligible...
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