Poll Shows Liberal Ideas Gaining With Young People
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Young Americans appear to lean slightly more to the left than the general population, according to a new poll.
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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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The young nation is learning that democracy isn't easy as no party captured a majority in the country's parliamentary vote
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Charles Kennedy says that students can help the Liberal Democrats win 27 new seats at the election.
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By KRIS WISE  DAILY MAIL CAPITOL REPORTER  A new study shows young voters could be critical to the outcome of November's midterm elections in West Virginia, where youth turnout in similar elections has been declining in the past two decades to less than 16 percent.
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GuardianFilms: At the University of Missouri, Guardian US correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg finds energized and focussed young voters who can't wait to put the Bush era behind them
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High school students across the country are increasingly tuned in to politics, and turned on by the election.
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Surveys show that interest in the election among the young is near the highest level it has reached at any time since 18- to 20-year-olds were given the vote in 1972.
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The government puts more money towards having 50% of young people being students, amid renewed criticism.
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The Conservatives promise better school discipline and more choice for parents.
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Two national polls of American children have markedly different results this year, one showing President Bush a clear winner, and the other predicting an even bigger win for Sen. John Kerry.
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Move over, slackers. Generation Y is hitting the workforce, tech gadgets in hand and eyes firmly on their careers. Now, if only they had some people skills & or patience ... or &
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Children from political families may get tired of campaigning, but Philip Perry isn't bored yet.
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The struggle among conservatives to define their movement in the post-Bush era may be getting more attention these days, but liberal intellectuals and writers are doing some soul-searching of their own.
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By VANESSA PERSICO &quot;I have a proposition for you,&quot; I wrote. lly apathetic 18-year-old friend a little over a week ago. &quot;You can vote.
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Plans for boot camps sparked by election-driven debate about young immigrants and violent crime
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The Conservatives have promised to give parents greater choice of schools. Their "pupil passport" idea is similar to a scheme in Sweden, as BBC education correspondent Mike Baker reports.