THE PACE, YDA's OFFICIAL BLOG
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January 12, 2012
The following analysis of the 2012 New Hampshire primary is from New Hampshire Young Democrats Vice President Doug Lindner: The combined number of young people voting for all the Republicans in Tuesday’s New Hampshire Primary just barely exceeded the number of young people who voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 New Hampshire Primary—when he [...]
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January 10, 2012
YDA Treasurer Jonathan Padilla published an opinion piece on NYTimes.com explaining that the Millennial Generation is fed up with gridlock in Washington but has not lost faith in President Obama. “Obama has not lost young voters; Washington has. In fact, it’s the president who is one of the remaining champions young people have inside the [...]
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January 09, 2012
We are excited to announce that YDA is kicking off 2012 by co-hosting our winter conference as part of a national youth summit along with the College Democrats of America. This is the first time in many years that YDA and CDA have co-located for a major national meeting. The conference will take place Friday, March 9th [...]
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January 04, 2012
Washington, D.C. (January 04, 2012)- After Tea Party-GOP candidates spent years and millions of dollars campaigning in advance of the Iowa Caucuses, Republican caucus goers sent a clear signal last night that “none of the above” is still their candidate of choice. In the 2008 Iowa Caucuses, 30,000 young Iowans supported President Obama, giving him [...]
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January 02, 2012
YDA President Rod Snyder published a blog on CNN.com today explaining why young voters will continue to stick with the President in 2012. When young voters helped put Barack Obama in office, the Millennial Generation made it clear its voice affects elections. Some have opined that this generation won’t continue to support President Obama and [...]
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December 29, 2011
We are just three days from the start of a major election year, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that the youth vote could be the deciding factor for Democrats in 2012. In fact, it seems as though Republicans have given up on young voters altogether and are instead trying to limit our access to the ballot box. This makes YDA’s voter [...]
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December 13, 2011
In January 2009, President Obama took office with 142,000 troops on the ground in Iraq. Today, the last of our service members are coming home and all U.S. military bases within the country are closing. After nine years, a war that profoundly affected our generation is over. Throughout the past decade, more than a million [...]
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December 08, 2011
Last Thursday, Speaker Gingrich said that “really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habit of working and have nobody around them who works…they have not habit of ‘I do this and you give me cash,’ unless it’s illegal.” Mr. Gingrich is clearly misinformed, unsympathetic to urban communities, and has no idea what it [...]
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December 07, 2011
The Young Democrats of America, the nation’s largest partisan, youth-led political organization, released the following statement regarding the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor: “As President Franklin D. Roosevelt said nearly 70 years ago, ‘December 7, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy.’” said YDA Veterans & Military Affairs Caucus Chair Matthew [...]
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December 02, 2011
Editor’s Note: Devon Weber works for the United Food & Commercial Workers and is part of their Making Change at Wal-Mart initative A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of speaking to the Young Democrats of America at the fall convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico about Making Change at Walmart, our campaign to improve [...]
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