New Poll Finds That Young Americans Are Leaning Left
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Young Americans are more likely to favor an open-door policy on immigration, the legalization of gay marriage and government-run health care, a poll found.
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The view from suburban Philadelphia voters about politics and politicians:
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Deepening worries about the economy and their personal finances put Americans in a sour mood this month, with more voters fearing a recession, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
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Young voters could make the crucial difference in '08, and the candidates of both parties are already getting expert help
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The majority of U.S. college students  favor Democratic challenger John Kerry over President Bush,  according to a Harvard University poll released on Thursday  that sees a dramatic rise in campus voter turnout.
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Though polls show many Americans are unhappy with the direction of the nation, they seem likely in the Nov. 2 elections to keep Republicans in control of the US Congress.
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War and politics are largely ignored by American teenagers, according to a Harvard University study released on Tuesday, which found that 60 percent of them pay little attention to daily news.
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The government's Generation Y may not be that much different from older entry-level hires when it comes to deciding on federal employment, new survey data suggests.
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Some views on the presidential campaign from voters in the Associated Press poll:
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The Associated Press-Ipsos poll on the 2008 presidential race was conducted Feb. 7-10, 2008, and is based on telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,029 adults from all states. The sample included 520 people who identified themselves as Democratic or who lean toward the Democratic Party, and 357 people who identified themselves as Republican or who lean toward the Republican Party.
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SYDNEY : Two new polls showed Australia&#39;s conservative government and Labor opposition neck and neck after the first week of campaigning for the October 9 election.
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New research challenges the notion that young Americans are the most self-absorbed.
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President Bush's unpopularity -- due largely to the war in Iraq -- seems likely to affect GOP candidates in the midterm elections in November, according to a CNN poll released today. Fifty-five percent of 1,004 Americans surveyed said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who has supported Bush administration policies, according to the poll.
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Voter registration drives aimed at young people are turning 18- to 24-year-olds into an important variable in the presidential election, especially in decisive battleground states such as Michigan - where nearly 100,000 young people have registered in recent months - and Wisconsin, where the numbers are even higher.
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â¢ Young voter turnout rose in the 2004 and 2006 elections. In the 2004 presidential election, about 20.1 million young people, ages 18 to 29, voted. The turnout rate was 49 percent, up 9 percentage points from 2000. The turnout rate in 2006, a non-presidential year, was 25 percent, up 3 percentage points from 2002.
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This was not the breakout year for young voters that some had anticipated. Fewer than one in 10 voters Tuesday were 18 to 24, about the same proportion of the electorate as in 2000, exit polls indicated. Still, with voter turnout expected to be higher overall, more young people appeared to have come out.
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A slim majority of Americans support the war in Iraq, according to a USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll released.