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Declare Yourself Anticipates Record Youth Turnout for Super Tuesday Primaries |
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From PR Newswire: Declare Yourself, the national nonpartisan, nonprofit youth voter registration initiative, which has registered more than a quarter million young voters so far for the 2008 campaign, today predicted record level participation by 18-to-29-year-old voters in the Feb. 5 "Super Tuesday" primaries, extending this year's historic youth voting trend and expanding young people's influence on the presidential campaign. Based on a new online survey and focus groups conducted by Declare Yourself, concerns about the economy are particularly driving young people to the polls. Morgenstern added that in January Declare Yourself received a burst of youth voter registrations through its online form, as young people sought to meet state registration deadlines to vote in the Super Tuesday primaries. Declare Yourself, founded by television pioneer Norman Lear, has registered over a quarter-million young people for the 2008 elections through Declare Yourself's simple, online registration form. This accelerated registration pace puts Declare Yourself well on its way to exceed its target to register two million young voters for the 2008 general election. Declare Yourself registered 1.2 million young voters in the 2004 campaign, helping raise participation from 18-to-25-year-olds by 11 percent over the 2000 election. Declare Yourself is a national nonpartisan, nonprofit campaign to empower and encourage every eligible 18-to-29-year-old in America to register and vote in the presidential primaries and 2008 presidential election. http://www.declareyourself.com or by texting VOTE to 55355 on your mobile phone.
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