{"id":5680,"date":"2009-04-28T12:53:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T12:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5680"},"modified":"2009-04-28T12:53:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T12:53:10","slug":"youth-turnout-topped-50-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5680","title":{"rendered":"youth turnout topped 50% in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Census has released its 2008 voting data, which is the basis of a fairly detailed new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/?p=339\">fact sheet by CIRCLE<\/a>. We find that the turnout of under-30s rose to 51.1 percent. For under-25s, the turnout was 48.5 percent. These rates are considerably above the levels we saw around 1996-2000.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/images\/youthturnout.2008.JPG\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m an optimist, so I&#8217;ll say that the glass is half full. (In fact, we beat the half-full mark by 1.1 percentage points.) We no longer see a steady decline since the 1970s: now the graph seems to suggest that roughly 50% turnout is the norm for American youth, and the late 90&#8217;s were an exception on the low side.<\/p>\n<p>But the gaps in turnout were large in 2008. About 36 percent of young people with no college experience voted, compared to a 62 percent rate for young people who have attended college. Only about half of young adults go to college.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a partisan gap, although that cannot be directly measured using Census data. Since 66 percent of young voters chose Obama\/Biden, it&#8217;s likely that conservative youth tended to stay home. That would account for why turnout didn&#8217;t rise more in &#8217;08.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s much more in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/?p=339\">fact sheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Census has released its 2008 voting data, which is the basis of a fairly detailed new fact sheet by CIRCLE. We find that the turnout of under-30s rose to 51.1 percent. For under-25s, the turnout was 48.5 percent. These rates are considerably above the levels we saw around 1996-2000. I&#8217;m an optimist, so I&#8217;ll [&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-5680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680","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=5680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}