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04 Nov 2008 10:20 am
The View From Your Election: Dartmouth College
A reader writes:
Those who are wondering if the youth will turn out ought to see what I
saw this morning.
One well-known government professor here told me that she has never
seen so many students vote in the first hour of voting as she saw this
morning. And I've never seen so many students up and alert at this
hour. They're normally stumbling out of bed to make it to their 10 a.m.
courses. Today, the campus has been buzzing for hours this morning. It
appears that many of them decided to go to the polls as groups of twos,
threes, fours and more when the polls opened at 7 a.m. The number of
students I saw by 8 a.m. walking around with "I voted" stickers on is
astonishing.
At breakfast, I sat next to a table of four black students, all of whom
had voted. The three men were wearing ties. I asked them why. The
answer: It was their first election, and they wanted to mark the
occasion.
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