The youth vote

It was my Grandpa’s birthday and I spent four hours away from campus as an alien youth, socializing with a group of foreigners from a planet on the other side of what is being called the largest generation gap since the ‘60s.

Young people are fired up about the 2008 election. This week we saw more than 3 million voters under the age of 30 flooding the polls on Super Tuesday, turning out in record numbers in more than 20 states. Exit polls showed that in almost every state, youth voter turnout increased significantly from 2000 and 2004.