The youth vote
By B.J. Reyes
This is probably a day late, but I wanted to post it as a “thank you” to the students at Hawaii Pacific University who took the time to talk to me while I set up there for the Political Radar Election Day live blog.
In addition to asking the students who they voted for — all but one were Barack Obama supporters — I also askedthem what they thought of the role that young voters would have in this election. (Admittedly, I stole this idea from CNN, which had two members of “Twitter Generation” on the set to discuss the issue of young voters during the early portion of election coverage.)
Much was made of how both campaigns had courted youth voters. In turn, young voters got involved in the election process like never before, utilizing social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, as well as new media tools like text messaging to help get out the vote.
To the students in the Sea Warrior Center, I asked: What role do you think younger voters like yourself will have in this election?
Many thanks to the students who appear in the video below, and also to Josh Friednash, who helped wrangle up the interview subjects. His interview was posted in yesterday’s live blog, along with an interview of another student, Dani McClister.
