Poll Finds 73% of Young Voters Will Vote

"If the 2004 and 2005 elections are any indicator, young voters will continue to turn out at the polls in record numbers in upcoming elections... A new poll released by Young Voter Strategies, a project of the George Washington Graduate School of Political Management, shows that 73 percent of young people who are eligible to vote are likely to cast ballots this November."

Said YVS director Heather Smith: "This generation will be 25 percent of the population by 2016 and it is likely that the party that wins in 2006 will be the party in power in 10 years."

Update: A Political Wire reader writes: "One thing that has frustrated us academic researchers in political science in that everyone said they will (and did) vote in a survey due to social desirability bias. Hence, when I saw that only 73% of young voters intended to vote in 2006, I was dismayed since that turnout level is lower than other age groups and corresponds to probably less than 50% ACTUAL turnout."


May 31, 2006




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