Youth Vote

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

[christopherl / Flickr] The November voter-turnout rate for the under-30 crowd promises to approach the heights of the early 70s and the 1992 spike. The youth vote also continues its recent trend of tilting Democratic. So how do engaged young voters think about Campaign 08? One "20ish year old" in Seattle, WA, ...

First-Time Voter

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Twenty-three-year-old Ashley is proud of her 70-year-old grandmother. Who, for the first time, just registered to vote. "Words can't express how proud," Ashley says. (Photo found by Ann Raber.) [ashleyligas / Flickr] Ashley and her grandmother have spent hours together researching the candidates and the issues. This is how democracy should work, ...

Super Tuesday Tweets

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

People are tweeting about everything from everywhere. It can be overwhelming. So the beauty of this Super Tuesday mashup found by Sue Salinger is the way it bites off one small and very digestible piece of Twitter: [estragon / Vimeo] Doesn't the simple Google map somehow emphasize how cool it is that ...