Youth Vote

Several political groups came together on the Auraria Campus in Denver on Wednesday to encourage students to vote early. The one notable exception was the campus Republicans who, although they agreed to co-sponsor the event, never showed.

Organizer hope that several activities, including the march and a blowout party on Election Day, will help turn out the student vote.

View the audio-video gallery of the march and rally below.

An ominous-sounding letter that El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Bob Balink sent to a journalism student at Colorado College has reignited a three-week old controversy over his past erroneous assertion that out-of-state college students are not eligible to vote in Colorado.

Nearly 10,000 students greeted Michelle Obama Wednesday morning to energize youth voters at the University of Colorado’s Farrand Field. View the slideshow inside.

Via Romenesko: Young voters don’t want too much information — and often feel overwhelmed by the deluge of election coverage on news sites, according to a Northwestern University Media Management Center study released Tuesday. The study of Chicago-area “millennials,” age 17-22, urged news outlets to deliver content more in keeping with the ways young voters want to consume information in an environment rich with competitions for time and attention.

A new report by the PEW Research Center confirms what rising primary turnout is already telling us: there is a huge demographic shift approaching in the electorate in the form of the Millennial Generation, and that shift will largely benefit the Democratic Party, writes our Center for Independent Media colleague, Mike Connery.

Are the much-vaunted 2.7 million young people who have turned out in record number for Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama getting thrown under the bus by the party establishment?

Join Center for Independent Media fellow Mike Connery and author of “Youth to Power: How Today’s Young Voters are Building Tomorrow’s Progressive Majority,” for a discussion on how technology, social media and grassroots organizing are reviving the youth political movement.

Book signings are slated tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the LoDo Tattered Cover and Wednesday at [...]

Center for Independent Media fellow Mike Connery, author of “Youth to Power: How Today’s Young Voters are Building Tomorrow’s Progressive Majority,” joined us this morning for a live discussion. Read Connery’s take on how technology, social media and grassroots organizing are reviving the youth political movement. Then, see Mike at the LoDo Tattered Cover and [...]

Join Center for Independent Media fellow Mike Connery, author of “Youth to Power: How Today’s Young Voters are Building Tomorrow’s Progressive Majority,” for a live 30 minute Q&A on Friday, April 11 at 10 a.m. MDT. Connery will take your questions on how technology, social media and grassroots organizing are reviving the youth political movement. [...]

The leaders of New Era Colorado promised a different kind of candidates’ forum Wednesday night. When some would-be Boulder City Council members mounted the stage carrying pints of beer and the mistress of ceremonies announced “martini specials,” you knew they weren’t lying.

If the brisk sales of alcohol in the back room of the Trilogy Bar [...]