Though Few Students Vote, Poll Shows Them Still Interested in Issues and Upbeat About the Country

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A nationwide survey of college students conducted for the Panetta Institute in 2000 revealed that although student voter turnout had been low in that year’s presidential primaries (only 17 percent of those eligible), these young people remained interested in the national policy debate and held a more optimistic view of the country’s condition than did other adults.



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