{"id":19757,"date":"2018-03-27T16:02:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T20:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=19757"},"modified":"2018-03-27T16:02:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T20:02:38","slug":"the-2018-youth-electoral-significance-index-yesi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=19757","title":{"rendered":"the 2018 Youth Electoral Significance Index (YESI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From CIRCLE today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CIRCLE\u2019s updated Youth Electoral Significance Index (YESI) is a valuable tool for any individual, campaign, organization, or institution that seeks to increase youth political engagement. Earlier this month,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/civicyouth.org\/top-10-congressional-districts-where-youth-might-decide-the-2018-elections\/\">we highlighted the top 10 congressional districts<\/a>\u00a0where young people might have an especially high electoral influence. Today we are releasing the top 10 senate and gubernatorial races where young people have the potential to do the same. The YESI can help stakeholders identify places where additional efforts and resources to turn out the youth vote could be decisive. It can also be a tool for equity and broadening engagement, if efforts focus on reaching those not yet engaged in the top-ranked locations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please click to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/civicyouth.org\/youthvote2018\">E<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/civicyouth.org\/youthvote2018\">xplore the Interactive Index<\/a>\u00a0 or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/civicyouth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018_yesi_full.pdf\">Read the Full Report and Methodology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/civicyouth.org\/yesi-2018-the-states-where-youth-can-swing-senate-and-governor-races\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/civicyouth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/state_yesi_2018_v2-768x478.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"478\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CIRCLE today: CIRCLE\u2019s updated Youth Electoral Significance Index (YESI) is a valuable tool for any individual, campaign, organization, or institution that seeks to increase youth political engagement. Earlier this month,\u00a0we highlighted the top 10 congressional districts\u00a0where young people might have an especially high electoral influence. Today we are releasing the top 10 senate and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2018-election","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757","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=19757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19760,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757\/revisions\/19760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}