Sometimes the hardest people to convince that young Americans are increasingly participating in our Democracy isn't them old folks … but instead it is other young Americans.

Well, if you are still a cynic take a gander at this new info from a CIRCLE fact sheet on the 2006 election:

"This fact sheet uses new data from the 2006 Current Population Survey, November Supplement, to determine the youth voter turnout in the 2006 midterm election. The data confirm early estimates by CIRCLE that 10.8 million young Americans voted in the 2006 midterm elections. The voter turnout rate was 25.5 percent in 2006, up 3 percentage points from the last midterm election in 2002."

 

 

This obviously is great news for not only our Party, but for the state of our Democracy as whole.

Take a minute to congratulate yourself for your part in this increase - but don't rest on your laurels.  To keep this trend of increased participation and support for Democrats alive, we are going to have to work even harder in the 2007 elections and during 2008 than we ever have.

That being said … great job to everyone focusing on young voters!