Young, first-time, voters. Certainly good to see them turn out, but my how they can skew things. Do they really know what Obama stands for? Or, are they just liking the way he says it?
Learning from Iowa’s Exit Polls
Bowers and I must be wearing different shades of glasses. He keeps suggesting that Obama’s victory in Iowa was not based on getting out the independent vote. He’s totally wrong. First, let’s look at the data. A well-reported five-point bump in turnout among younger voters helped propel Barack Obama to victory in Iowa, and a look behind the numbers shows just how different this new generation of caucusgoers is from the historically more “reliable” group of over-65 voters. Last Thursday evening, 22 percent of Democratic caucusgoers were under 30 years [... ]
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