{"id":19211,"date":"2017-11-08T14:58:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T19:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=19211"},"modified":"2017-11-08T14:58:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T19:58:37","slug":"a-real-surge-in-youth-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=19211","title":{"rendered":"a real surge in youth voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/civicyouth.org\/virginia-youth-voter-turnout-doubled-between-2009-and-2017-estimates-suggest\/\">CIRCLE<\/a>, youth turnout has doubled in Virginia over the past three gubernatorial races, from 17% of eligible young people in 2009 to 34% yesterday. Virginians under the age of 30 also tilted dramatically to the Democratic side. Just over half (54%) of young Virginians had chosen Hillary Clinton one year ago; 69% voted for the Democrat, Ralph Northam, yesterday. Voting in force and tilting to one party is how to have real impact.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/civicyouth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/va_nj_turnout_2017-1-768x312.png\" width=\"768\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In New Jersey, where this year&#8217;s gubernatorial race was not particularly competitive, the youth turnout trend was flat.<\/p>\n<p>Closer to home, Boston (like several major cities) held a mayoral election yesterday. We don&#8217;t know the youth turnout rate there because the data aren&#8217;t available yet. However, in the past two Boston mayoral elections (each conducted in an odd-numbered year), youth turnout did not reach even\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/civicyouth.org\/boston-highlights-potential-challenges-in-off-year-electoral-engagement\/\"><em>two percent<\/em><\/a>. In contrast, last November, about 35% of young eligible voters voted in Boston, and 80%-87% of the\u00a0<em>registered<\/em>\u00a0young adults in each ward turned out. Although there&#8217;s work to be done to educate and engage young people in local politics&#8211;and some excellent organizers are doing that right now in Boston&#8211;it&#8217;s also bad to hold elections in off years. If you want your city to flourish, you need a youth perspective.\u00a0You should hold elections on years when one in three&#8211;instead of one in fifty&#8211;young people turn out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CIRCLE, youth turnout has doubled in Virginia over the past three gubernatorial races, from 17% of eligible young people in 2009 to 34% yesterday. Virginians under the age of 30 also tilted dramatically to the Democratic side. Just over half (54%) of young Virginians had chosen Hillary Clinton one year ago; 69% voted [&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":[35,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-election","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19211","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=19211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19214,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19211\/revisions\/19214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}