Party politics goes high-tech in the battle for new, younger votes
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The governing Labour Party is at it, as are the opposition Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. Political blogging, podcasting and online video is taking off in Britain as politicians look to widen the net for new -- and importantly younger -- voters.
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Analysis: Every campaign has a site, but this presidential candidate uses technology effectively to connect with voters.
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Connecticut is going high-tech to lure young voters to the polls. Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz announced Thursday that her agency's Web site will offer a video showing how to use the state's recently acquired optical scan voting machines. The 90-second video can be downloaded onto personal recording devices, including iPods.
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With the US presidential election less than two months away, the Republicans have adopted an aggressive new campaigning tactic that not only seems to be working, but has an element of fun to it as well.
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This was supposed to be the presidential election in which those hip souls who dwell in the cybersphere would revolutionize politics, and a gargantuan army of draft-wary young people would really rock the vote.
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WASHINGTON _ For candidates embracing the brave new world of online politics, the Internet giveth and the Internet taketh away.
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Under-30 voters came through in big numbers this year, with more than 20 million casting a ballot for president, researchers found. The turnout bested their 2000 showing by more than nine percentage points and heartened activists who worked to get young voters to the polls.
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The Democratsâ growing dominance in securing contributions online is reshaping the 2008 elections.
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19-year-old student becomes joint party leader as rivals call for quick election
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Under a youthful media-savvy  leader, Britain's once-staid opposition Conservatives are  turning to blogs to grab the attention -- and they hope the  votes -- of the younger generation.
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The Democratic Party's most powerful  weapon is heading back into battle.
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A leftist party in Uruguay is hoping an online game will help it attract young voters.
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Candidates could face problems as they try to integrate online political discourse into traditional campaigning.
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WARSAW (International Herald Tribune) - The text message spread with viral speed among the cellphones of Polish teens. With national parliamentary elections coming up Sunday, kids had a clear mission: "Steal your grandmother's ID," the text jokingly implored. The message referred to the conventional wisdom here that conservative older women put the ruling Law and Justice Party and the Kaczynski brothers - the notorious twins with the round faces of aging cherubs who are prime minister and president - into office. Without their identity cards, the grandmothers would not be able to vote. If granny does not vote, the government could be driven from office.  Teenagers guffawed. The Kaczynskis fumed. Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said that those who repeated the message "act against you and also against the Polish nation." The small Polish Peasants Party quickly ran its own advertisement in which a grandmother catches her grandson in the act of snatching her identity card. She tells there's no need for him to steal it, because she plans to vote for the Peasants Party and not Law and Justice. In the previous 2005 election, Law and Justice benefited from low voter turnout, needing only 3.2 million votes in a country of 38 million to take control of government in a coalition with several smaller parties. The most recent coalition fell apart over a contentious scandal-filled summer, leading to early elections this weekend.  Opponents are counting on a strong turnout by younger voters this time around. The latest opinion polls show Civic Platform, a free-market, pro-European rival party, poised to win the election Sunday. But polls here have proved highly unreliable, skewed by the country's historically lethargic turnout, which was a little over 40 percent in the elections two years ago.
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The Conservative Party is hoping to harness the power of the Internet to attract younger, disaffected voters into mainstream politics with the launch of a new blogsite.
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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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Young people are voting in numbers not seen in decades. Barack Obama is both catalyst and beneficiary. Will they make the difference?