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Caucus and Primary Low Down

By Ally Klimkoski
February 5, 2008

Braving snow and high winds University of Kansas students attended one of three caucuses in the college town of Lawrence tonight where a huge number of caucus goers in the state showed up.

I'll say it again.... the real winner tonight is young voters!

My location was so full that the fire marshal had problems with the number of people and they had to be split and sent to another location.

See some great videos and pictures below the flip...

There Sen. Clinton was barely viable and received only one delegate. And the youth turnout was awesome! Young people everywhere all ready to support their candidates. Young people don't fit into a monolithic block of voters - but a majority of the young people there went for Obama.... indeed the majority of people there went for Obama but it doesn't mean that young people were not voting for Clinton.

At a friend of mine's caucus they had 2,218 people. Upon first count Hillary was also barley viable with only 5 people over the total needed. After the shuffle she earned only 30 more at 385 to Barack Obama's 1833.

My friend took pictures which you can see here:

Nationally we've seen youth turnout increase in every state that held elections and caucuses today. We are still waiting for results to come in but enthusiasm and energy for all candidates were high and turnout was fantastic.

Rock the Vote is seen here talking about young voters

And Karlo from CIRCLE (the guy I always get my numbers from) is here talking about the outstanding movement afoot this year.

Are more young people involved this year?
Karlo says yes with record turnout, amazing engagement on issues and on candidates.

I hopefully will have more info when we get numbers that are better than the exit polls. Exit polls are incredibly inaccurate in calculating the youth vote because exit polling people rarely ask young people nor do they count them.


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That sounds so exciting!

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