To those of you who exercised your right to vote in the 2008 General Election, I applaud you! Now that the election is over and the analysts begin investigate who voted and why they voted the way they did, and the rest of us begin to look toward the future and what the outcome will mean for our country, I thought I might make one final post about this election. This is the post that inspired me to do it, discovered on The Daily Beast. (CIRCLE is the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, a nonpartisan research center studying youth civic engagement and civic education.)

CIRCLE Increases Youth Turnout Estimates; The Youth Vote Impact in Pictures
by Michael Connery

http://futuremajority.com/node/3969

In fact, the author has published a number of blog posts rounding up the news on the impact of the youth vote on the 2008 election.

Check out their "About" page to learn more about the mission of the Future Majority blog and the post's author, Michael Connery.