Young voters -- a wild card in 2006 U.S. elections
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A tech-savvy college senior with a   passion for politics, Ryan Briggs is fed up with the White   House and is urging young Democrats to stand up for their   party. But he's not waving placards or handing out fliers.
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Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK In the final stretch of the 2006 midterm elections, famed reporter Tom Edsall started his day with a virtual information overload Â reading no less than 10 blogs to keep abreast of the 24-hour coverage of Senate and House races across the nation. It's as if he's been doing it for all 65 years of his life Â instead of for the first time. In reality, neither he nor anyone else in politics had even heard of a blog during the last midterm election Â and since then, it's hard for many reporters to remember the time when they were considerably less connected.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida has been the center of massive voter registration drives, and neither party has a clear lead. Out of almost 1.6 million new voters registered in Florida since the 2000 election
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It wasn't long ago that Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign scoffed at the notion that young voters would deliver an election. How quickly things can change.
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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.    They are the nation's newest swing voters, with polls showing their support for the major candidates has vacillated in recent months...
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The view from suburban Philadelphia voters about politics and politicians:
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I volunteered to take this poll at my school because I was interested in whom kids my age would vote for. The first question I asked, âIf you were eligible to vote, which candidate would
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ELECTION: Electorate: 15.9 million. Voting age: 18.
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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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MTV and the gaming industry are hoping characters from the gaming world will be able to reach the double-click generation. The message is clear: Young people need to take voting  seriously. -The Washington Post
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A PERSON could go mad trying to follow US election polling. One day George W.Bush is slumping, the next he&#39;s up. One day John Kerry has momentum, the next he&#39;s dead meat.
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Move over &quot;Nascar Dads.&quot; Step aside &quot;Security Moms.&quot; The hottest new voting bloc is the hip-hop generation, said rap empresario Sean &quot;P. Diddy&quot; Combs, who criticized the major political parties for not courting the urban youth vote.
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As the presidential campaign got underway a year ago, the candidates faced a volatile political environment dominated by the Iraq war, illegal immigration and terrorism. A year later, the campaigns are rewriting their scripts as it appears that the race may actually be shaped once more by the eco...
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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 &#151; where nearly 100,000 young people have registered in recent months &#151; and Wisconsin, where the numbers are even higher.
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Candidates' race, gender, age, and religion are among the factors that could shape the election.
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I think I&#39;ve figured out a way for John Kerry to win the White House hands down: Limit voting to people under 30. When polls examine all likely voters, most of them show President Bush maintaining a razor-thin
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THE RACE: Support for Republican, Democratic candidates in the presidential races in Florida