{"id":5356,"date":"2008-01-04T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T00:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5356"},"modified":"2008-01-04T00:01:14","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T00:01:14","slug":"youth-turnout-up-very-sharply-in-iowa-young-voters-pick-obama-and-huckabee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5356","title":{"rendered":"youth turnout up very sharply in Iowa; young voters pick Obama and Huckabee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sober analysis by CIRCLE is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/?p=258\">here<\/a>. Youth turnout rose from 3 percent of eligible young participants in 2000 to four percent in 2004, and then to eleven percent last night. [Update: we&#8217;re now saying, based on the last counts, that youth turnout rose to 13 percent: more than a three-fold increase.] The more dramatic version is what Mark Ambinder <a href=\"http:\/\/marcambinder.theatlantic.com\/\">writes <\/a>on The Atlantic.com: &#8220;REVOLUTION FOR CHANGE BEGINS? ON STRENGTH OF NEW CAUCUS GOERS, YOUNG VOTERS AND INDEPENDENTS&#8230;..OBAMA WINS DEMOCRATIC CAUCUSES&#8230;&#8230;..&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This year should be interesting for those of us in the youth civic engagement business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sober analysis by CIRCLE is here. Youth turnout rose from 3 percent of eligible young participants in 2000 to four percent in 2004, and then to eleven percent last night. [Update: we&#8217;re now saying, based on the last counts, that youth turnout rose to 13 percent: more than a three-fold increase.] The more dramatic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}