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Youth Perspectives on Election 2004
Youth Radio is following Election 2004 around the
country, through the perspectives of young people who are getting a close-up
view of the process. Check out their thoughts, and watch for more to come.
A Look at Presidential Candidates
Youth Radio's correspondents are profiling Presidential Candidates, digging
into their political views and personal backgrounds to uncover things most important
to young voters.
Vice Presidential Candidate John Edwards
Youth Radio features a montage of youth voices on Vice Presidential Candidate John Edwards.
A New Voter
"I have to admit I’m nervous about my first vote."
By Kiah Vernon
Female President
"I think it’s time for a woman to run for the country’s highest office."
By Kalid Mohammed
Bush's World of Black and White
"Often the issues for which he stands are less important than how he takes his stance."
By Elijah Leed
Young Voters
"It is time for young adult voters to realize that we have more to lose by not voting."
By Wesley Myrick
My Vote Counts
"In a nation where the last election was decided by only a few hundred votes, I know my vote counts."
By Tadina Ross
My First Vote
"There is no point in voting in this November’s presidential election."
By William Robertson
Youth Voting
"People my age take such ‘privileges’ for granted."
By Lauren Blassingame
Lowering the Voting Age
"When I was 16, I realized that I would turn 18 one month after the 2004 election."
By Robert Reynolds
Teen Voices on Lowering the Voting Age
“Training Wheels for Citizenship” is the title of a new California proposal by Democratic State Senator John Vasconcellos to lower the state’s voting age. It would give teenagers as young as fourteen fractional votes in state and local elections: sixteen year-olds would be granted half an adult vote; fourteen year-olds a quarter vote. Youth Radio asked California teens hanging out after school at a park what THEY think of the idea.
I Think 16-year-olds Should Vote
"A teenage vote could bring a new voice to the table."
By Robert Reynolds
I Think 16-year-olds Should NOT Vote
"Sixteen-year olds are not politically educated enough to vote."
By Lauryn Silverman
Chasing the Candidates
"Youth Radio is getting no callbacks on the formal requests, but I'm in daily contact with the Kucinich campaign."
By Javier Armas
Miami's Newest Voters
"I really want people to notice us...they just, you know, leave us out."
By Gaby Arvizu
One-on-One
with Dennis Kucinich
Youth Radio's Javier Armas interviews presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich.
Travels
of a Nomadic Campaigner
Youth Radio's Krystle Martin talks to nomadic campaigner Brian Brokaw who is
going state to state on the presidential campaign trail.
Electoral College
"I can't help but realize that my vote is less important than many Americans."
By Reid Edgar
Primary
Day in New Hampshire
Youth Radio's Robert Reynolds interviews Amit Paley, a college student at Harvard,
on the day of the New Hampshire primary to get the pulse of young voters in
the state.
John
Edwards Campaign
Youth Radio's Belia Mayeno Choy interviews Mollye Hooper who's been volunteering
with John Edwards' New Hampshire campaign. They talked before voters in that
state hit the polls.
John
Kerry Campaign
Youth Radio's Ursula Mehl interviews Kaetlin Miller, who is working on the John
Kerry campaign in Manchester, New Hampshire.
New Hampshire Journal from the John
Edwards’ Campaign
"I believe that John Edwards can beat President George Bush in a general
election."
By Mollye Hooper
A View from Iowa
"The stereotype is that teens don’t care about politics."
By Kate Coenen
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