Youth Voter Turnout Could Change Election Outcome : Pollster, By Joan Bryden

Since 1972, youth voter turnout has been on the decline. According to the Child Trends Databank, 50 percent of Americans aged 18 to 24 participated in the 1972 presidential election (2015). Nearly three decades later, the percentage of young adults aged 18 to 24 who voted in the 2000 presidential election had dropped eighteen

Political inactivity on the part of young Americans stems from one fundamental source -- a general cynicism of the American political process. This disdain for politics is further perpetuated by a lack of voter education and a needlessly archaic voting procedure that creates barriers to voting where they need not exist. While many of these existing problems can be rectified with relative ease through the implementation of programs such as Internet voting and better voter education, such programs create only a partial solution.

Is it under the constitution that the government is obligated to engage young people in decision-making? Has the government ratified a strategic action plan unique for young people? In order for young people to be decision-makers on policies that affect them, the government, young people and community organizations need to increase awareness of the importance of youth engagement and participation. Once the positive effects of youth participation are acknowledged, negative stereotypes of young people will be eliminated, helping young Americans climb higher on the ladder of youth participation in local

Voting in Canada is more important now than ever. At the last federal election on October 19th 2015, there was an overall voter turnout of 68.3%. This was the highest voter turnout Canada had seen at a federal election in two decades. Out of 35,85 million people in Canada, 3,6 million people casted their ballots. However, with the overall increase of people that showed up to this election, the number of young people, especially those aged 18-24 that attended, was at an all time low. This has created a great deal of concern for when these people get to be older and more younger people will be eligible to vote, if there will be anybody in Canada who are still voting with interest and not just abstaining to. It’s important that the most amount of people in Canada vote as possible so that our government is solely represented by people who Canadians agree with their political statements and beliefs. There’s no point in the country being run by people and parties who Canadians don’t agree with because their main job as representants of the country is to voice the beliefs and concerns of those Canadians. It’s important for Canadians to be encouraged to vote young because it is the first years of being legal age to vote that are uninterested in doing so.

The message emerging from a recent research series on youth civic and political participation is clear: today's youth are not disjoined from associational and small political life, but they are increasingly disenchanted with formal political institutions and practices. Children and youth under 18 have made sententious strides in recent years toward fuller involvement in democratic processes. These strides,

I belive that before se set out to make major changes to the voter laws, such as changing the voter age requirment, new programes should be rolled out in an attempt to increase younger voter turnout fist. For example, use of social media to target younger voters. More political ingagment with a younger age group would help build on itself as polititions engage and take up issues that matter to yonger voters, thus incressing young voter turnout, and thus raising the value of younger voters to polititions seeking ideas and votes to be elected or re-elected. a prime example is how effective it was for Bill Clintons campaign during the 90's when he appealed to young voters by going on "MTV."

In chapter one, Wattenberg discusses the declining trends of Americans who regularly read newspapers between the 1960’s and present day. This can be attributed the aging patterns among generations who frequently read newspapers as well as with the use of technology rising. Reading the newspaper is a habit that either is or is not developed by the time one reaches voting age. With this, newspapers have become an older generation’s primary source of information, however, are still the best source for political matters. Younger generations tend to be more computer literate and have grown up with television and media more accessible to them than the previous generation. These trends not only reflect in American culture, but in other countries

The main point according Martin P. Wattenberg in Is Voting For Young People is that young people today do not vote during elections as much compared to other voting groups. Young people today are politically unengaged. “These state patterns of voting participation can be confirmed on the national level by the Census Bureau’s 2010 survey data. Among U.S. citizens under the age of 30 in 2010, only 24 percent reported that they voted.” (Page-188, IVYP) The low attendance of young people voting in Presidential elections indicates that young people do not care enough about politics to participate.

"You don 't get the chance to make America great by getting rid of everything that made America great,” Stated by Hillary Clinton during her campaign rally in St. Louis, Missouri to attack candidate Donald Trump from his previous diverse rhetoric. Political Rhetoric has been very popular in today’s society. Politics use this as a platform to criticize other candidates about important points that are essential to the United States and its citizens. Not only does others believe that political rhetoric is out of control but it is a negative form of art. During election time, the media and the internet are critical for candidates because it gives them easy access to the younger audience. Although social media is enormous in today’s society, this is the best way for young voters to make their voices heard. Scott Keeter a research analyst and exit poll analyst for NBS News stated that “Young voters have given the Democratic Party a majority of their votes, and for all three cycles they have been the party’s most supportive age group” (Keeter, 1). According to U.S. Census Bureau over the course of time the rate of younger voters “Dropped from 50.9% percent in 1964 to 38.0 percent in 2012” (U.S. Census Bureau, 2).However, the media continue to evolve with modern society. I believe that rhetoric such as visual political rhetoric helps the youth to get more involved with the political arguments while being educated and entertained at the same time.

“Young people are interested in politics, and do have faith in the democratic process. Nonetheless, the political system and the established parties and politicians that dominate it, are together failing to

Today was the last day to compile research about young voters. All of my research was summarized and analyzed. My research paper provides background information and global analysis about young voters. I researched the reason for young voters absence in the polls. I have also discovered some possible solutions. This information is helpful because my final product is about finding solutions to young voters absence specifically in Warren county. The solutions will be used to help connect county officials to high school students. I will also identify problems in the county and discover where high school students stand politically. My research paper has lots of statistics about the state young voters are now, where they were, and where they can

My article from the Monkey Cage is titled “What makes young people more excited about politics? Deciding how to spend municipal budgets”. This article talked about how much the young adult voter turnout rate is very low, but is beginning to rise due to the topic of participatory budgeting. I learned that participatory budgeting is basically a type of democracy, in which ordinary people get to decide where the public budget goes to the reason that youth are interested in participatory budgeting, is because they feel like their voice is actually being heard. In addition, youth like it when young people approach them about politics better when someone older does so because they feel like their more equal. It also states that youth think, it is

American politics and the government surrounding it are often marred in cynicism and negativity. Such skepticism is, obviously, unhealthy and is not very conducive when it comes to encouraging the younger generation to get involved in political affairs. David Rankin attempts to tackle this dilemma in his 2013 book US Politics and Generation Y: Engaging the Millennials. In this paper, Rankin’s work will be summarized, followed by an evaluation of myself using Rankin’s criteria, and then discussing a recent political event that arrested my attention during my tenure as a Political Science 104 (POL 104) student at the University of Wisconsin – Richland.

Lack of knowledge would control a portion of the lower aged voters. Most teens pay little to no attention to what is going on with politics. The promises made by the canidates, or most importantly the future our nation holds from the different choices between each canidate. It can be granteed that a teenager

Lowering the voting age in the United States is a constant, ever growing, immensely debatable issue which will continue to divide the US for years to come. Until change is present, American elections won’t have the complete opinion of the population. The main counterargument to this idea is that teens aren’t properly informed about this particular topic, however, there are many intelligent teens who are very capable of making educated decisions. Many teenagers hear their parents and families talk about politics and their personal views, creating a greater incentive for these teens to vote.