Tag Archives: youth vote

“Do I Know You?” Characterizing the Youth Vote

(Written for KALW radio request to speak about the youth perspective on the elections.)  
I’m a hot commodity in these presidential elections. And if you’re under 30, you are too. It doesn’t matter that you’ve never picked up a newspaper and I’m a journalism student. We’re practically the same person.
That is, according to the media [...]

Talking Politics with Grandma

Sometime between the banter about Georgia weather and a riveting discussion on the redeeming qualities of lettuce, it hit me. My grandmother and I were talking politics.
And not just the “our country is in a mess” rhetoric. We were analyzing candidates as this 80-year-old Southern woman articulately explained NAFTA to me. She even knew the [...]