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Activists made great strides in past year

Published Wednesday, December 13, 2006

On Nov. 7, America — college students especially — voted for change. Throughout the country, young voters shifted decisively to the Democrats, playing a major role in the electoral realignment that wrested Congress from Republican hands. Here at Yale, students were particularly active. A coalition of groups led by the Yale College Democrats and Students for a New American Politics PAC registered hundreds of students to vote and coordinated efforts that achieved record on-campus turnout. That same coalition also knocked on thousands of doors and made thousands of phone calls in key...

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