{"id":14435,"date":"2014-10-24T10:43:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T14:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=14435"},"modified":"2014-11-04T09:58:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T14:58:19","slug":"talking-youth-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=14435","title":{"rendered":"talking about the youth vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Orlando, FL) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.byuradio.org\/episode\/130d419b-7b12-4afe-9221-936c919607e8\/the-morning-show-civic-youth-vali-nasr-sex-assault?playhead=117&amp;autoplay=true\">Here is the audio<\/a> of an interview I enjoyed doing recently on BYU Radio. The conversation ranged pretty widely, but here are a few excerpts (from their writeup):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lack of engagement among young people is not entirely their fault, says Levine. \u201cYoung people are often just not asked to vote,\u201d says Levine. \u201cIf someone knocks on your door, you\u2019re more likely to vote. Young people are often left off those campaign lists because they haven\u2019t voted before or they\u2019re considered unlikely to vote. So that becomes a vicious cycle.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There is no shortage of engagement among young people in efforts to improve their world \u2013socially conscious hashtag campaigns, boycotts and protests are evidence of that. But engagement in the formal political process is where today\u2019s youth are lacking, says Levine. \u201cPolitics needs to make room for youth. The process isn\u2019t committed to them, it\u2019s not reaching out to them and it\u2019s serving up a complex voting system.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Orlando, FL) Here is the audio of an interview I enjoyed doing recently on BYU Radio. The conversation ranged pretty widely, but here are a few excerpts (from their writeup): Lack of engagement among young people is not entirely their fault, says Levine. \u201cYoung people are often just not asked to vote,\u201d says Levine. \u201cIf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,31,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-election","category-audio-and-video","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14440,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14435\/revisions\/14440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}