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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: ChinuSFO who started this subject	7/4/2004 10:22:42 PM
From: CalculatedRisk	of 81568

Millennial Teens Show Interest in Voting news.yahoo.com By MARTHA IRVINE, AP National Writer VERONA, Wis. - They've gotten pregnant less often than teens of recent decades, are less likely to smoke or do illegal drugs, and have an interest in volunteering and public service. Now signs are cropping up that the nation's youngest young adults are bucking another trend: They're taking an interest in voting. "It's important to us. What happens in this election is going to affect our generation," says 18-year-old Katie Brew, who filled out a registration form shortly before graduating from Verona High School, just outside Madison. About to head to the University of Nebraska for her freshman year, Brew is most worried about the potential for a draft. Others say the threat of terrorism and the Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites) wars have motivated them to get involved. "We've been through things like 9-11 and the war on Iraq — all that junk. So we want to have a say," says 18-year-old Mia Georgeson, another newly registered voter from Verona High who's about to join the National Guard Army band as a percussionist. <MORE>

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