Youth Vote Slideshow

Click here to view Lauren and Branden's slideshow project on youth and the 2008 election process.

Wind power a key part of Obama's energy plan

Click here for Holly, Kristen, and Brent's Soundslides project.

2008 Voter Turnout

This Wall Street Journal blog titled "Political Perspectives" comments on the voter turnout in the 2008 presidential election. Essentially, the author feels that voter turnout was good but could have been better. The different relationships between parties and voter participation are examined, as well as differences between the individual candidates.

http://blogs.wsj.com/politicalperceptions/2008/11/13/2008-voter-turnout-good-but-not-great/

Technology and Young Voters

Here is the video created by Kristen, Brent and Holly. The video focuses on how technology has influenced the youth vote in the 2008 election.

WSU Republican & Democrat President's Views on 2008 Election

The following video was created by Lauren Jasmer and Branden Silva. It features Chris Howe, WSU College Republican President and Chelsea Tremblay, WSU Young Democrat President. The Presidents discuss this year's election and the effect of the youth vote on the election, in addition to the future of our generation.

Youth Vote Blog

http://www.youthvoteblog.com/

This is a well designed CBS blog that includes things like political cartoons and deals with issues that the "next gen" crowd allegedly care about. It is a good alternate source of information and elections coverage.

Opinions

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/15/presidential.debate/index.html

Going along with Lauren's last post is a link to CNN with a bit of their opinion on how the debate went. Also, story highlights on the site take you to places with polls on who viewers think one and pages with odd or interesting facts about the candidates.