{"id":22916,"date":"2020-10-29T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/two-stories-about-youth-voting-in-this-election#id28203"},"modified":"2020-10-29T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T20:07:00","slug":"two-stories-about-youth-voting-in-this-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/two-stories-about-youth-voting-in-this-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Two stories about youth voting in this election."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/vote-2020\/2020\/10\/27\/the-youth-vote-in-texas-is-up-by-more-than-600-from-last-presidential-election\/\">&#8220;The youth vote in Texas is up by more than 600% from last presidential election,&#8221;<\/a> from KSAT<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In Texas, as of Friday, 753,600 voters cast a ballot in the 2020 election. During the same time period in 2016, only 106,000 Texans younger than 30 had voted, according to the analysis, representing a 610% increase.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/circle.tufts.edu\/latest-research\/absentee-and-early-voting-youth-2020-election\">&#8220;Absentee and Early Voting by Youth in the 2020 Election,&#8221;<\/a> from CIRCLE (really good chart in this one)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In Florida, North Carolina, Maine, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, early votes cast by youth have already exceeded the 2016 margin of victory in that state&#39;s presidential race. More than five million young people (ages 18-29) have already voted early or absentee in the 2020 elections, including nearly 3 million in 14 key states that may well decide the presidency and control of the United States Senate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/two-stories-about-youth-voting-in-this-election\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/vote-2020\/2020\/10\/27\/the-youth-vote-in-texas-is-up-by-more-than-600-from-last-presidential-election\/\">&#8220;The youth vote in Texas is up by more than 600% from last presidential election,&#8221;<\/a> from KSAT<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In Texas, as of Friday, 753,600 voters cast a ballot in the 2020 election. During the same time period in 2016, only 106,000 Texans younger than 30 had voted, according to the analysis, representing a 610% increase.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/circle.tufts.edu\/latest-research\/absentee-and-early-voting-youth-2020-election\">&#8220;Absentee and Early Voting by Youth in the 2020 Election,&#8221;<\/a> from CIRCLE (really good chart in this one)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In Florida, North Carolina, Maine, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, early votes cast by youth have already exceeded the 2016 margin of victory in that state&#8217;s presidential race. More than five million young people (ages 18-29) have already voted early or absentee in the 2020 elections, including nearly 3 million in 14 key states that may well decide the presidency and control of the United States Senate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/two-stories-about-youth-voting-in-this-election\">View Post ?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22917,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916\/revisions\/22917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}