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Article from: The Virginian Pilot Article date: November 02, 2008

VIRGINIA'S population is getting older and grayer, but wrinkles and Dr. Scholl's may get extra competition on Tuesday from body piercings and Abercrombie & Fitch fashions at polling places across the state.

The number of registered Virginia voters under the age of 25 has grown by more than 100,000 since the 2004 presidential election, pushing the ranks of Generation Y over the half-million mark.

Those statistics could prove crucial. President Bush carried Virginia by just 262,000 votes four years ago.

Virginia has been reliably red in presidential elections for more ...

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Obama's General Election Plan: Sign Up Voters

Posted Apr 2, 08 2:34 PM CDT in Politics 

Obama's General Election Plan: Sign Up Voters
Source: AP Photo/Alex Brandon

(Newser) – Barack Obama's general-election strategy is to rejigger the electorate in his favor by signing up massive numbers of new voters—mainly young and African-American voters. Suspicious Dems point out that a similar effort failed John Kerry in 2004, but, reports Politico, there's legitimate reason to think Obama might be able to pull it off.

Unlike past candidates who promised to get out the African-American and youth votes, Obama is actually succeeding—one aide points to voter-registration efforts in South Carolina that were "such a big part of getting us to that 28-point margin of victory." The campaign plans to replicate those efforts in "every state where there's large pockets of under-35s and African-Americans."

Source: Politico

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