Primary election stats suggest GOP youth-voter catastrophe will continue

Low turnout among youth voters for the Republican Super Tuesday primary contests suggests the GOP is making a major strategy misstep this year, analysts told the Colorado Independent. They said that Republican campaign messages to young people are mostly absent, weak or a turn-off and they called youth outreach efforts uninspired. They said the party looks to be continuing a disastrous trend sure to be exploited in the general election by President Obama, the man whose candidacy drew out young people as voters and volunteers in record numbers in 2008.

GOP no-shows on early vote rally targeting students

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.

Balink, GOP-backed student voter disenfranchisement rages anew

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.

Michelle Obama wows ‘em at CU student voter registration rally

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.

Media study: Don’t ‘bombard’ young voters with election news

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.

PEW: Youth-Driven Demographic Shift Moves the Electorate Left

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…

Young Voters Snubbed as Dem Convention Delegates

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?

‘Youth to Power’ Comes to Colorado

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…

Live Q&A with Youth Vote Expert Mike Connery

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…

COMING: Live Q&A with Youth Vote Expert Mike Connery

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.…