{"id":16495,"date":"2016-03-02T13:57:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T18:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16495"},"modified":"2016-03-02T13:57:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T18:57:45","slug":"the-youth-turnout-story-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16495","title":{"rendered":"the youth turnout story so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/civicyouth.org\/super-tuesday-2016\/\">CIRCLE&#8217;s release this morning<\/a>: &#8220;An estimated 1.8 million young people participated in Super Tuesday\u2019s primaries and caucuses, almost a million youth in the Democratic contests and around 900,000 in the Republican contests. With a number of strong showings across many states, young people continued this year\u2019s trend of high participation that rivals the numbers from 2008, when youth turnout in some cases tripled that of previous years. Young Republican participation, especially, has increased compared to 2008, sometimes by dramatic amounts. And in both parties young people are still not rallying around the frontrunners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/civicyouth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/AggregateSuperTuesdayGraph-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"714\" height=\"528\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CIRCLE also has a nifty <a href=\"http:\/\/civicyouth.org\/quick-facts\/2016-election-center\/#Cumulative\">new interactive tool<\/a> that allows you to compare recent presidential campaigns&#8217; youth support. One takeaway for me: Sanders is mobilizing\u00a0almost as many young voters as Obama did in &#8217;08. (Sanders&#8217;\u00a0percentage is larger, but the actual number is a bit smaller.) The\u00a0young Obama voters in &#8217;08 were\u00a0on a\u00a0bus that drove all the way to the White House. The Sanders voters will not have such a smooth ride. What difference will that make to their\u00a0development as\u00a0citizens and activists?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CIRCLE&#8217;s release this morning: &#8220;An estimated 1.8 million young people participated in Super Tuesday\u2019s primaries and caucuses, almost a million youth in the Democratic contests and around 900,000 in the Republican contests. With a number of strong showings across many states, young people continued this year\u2019s trend of high participation that rivals the numbers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2016-election","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16495","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=16495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16508,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16495\/revisions\/16508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}