Can Labor Translate Youth Support into Increased Off Year Turnout? Find Out Tuesday

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Right now the WI Supreme Court leans Right. JoAnne Kloppenburg would hopefully change that--especially since many of the anti-union law suits are expected to work their way to the SC within a year or so.



http://elections.firedoglake.com/2011/04/01/can-labor-translate-youth-support-into-increased-off-year-turnout-find-out-tuesday/

Can Labor Translate Youth Support into Increased Off Year Turnout? Find Out Tuesday

By: Jon Walker Friday April 1, 2011 3:44 pm


The good news for public sector labor unions is that they have very strong support among young people. The overall rate of support is so high among younger voters that unions could possibly use a strategy of just trying to increase turnout for the entire age group instead of worrying about the more complicated task of micro-targeting potential supporters in the age bracket.

The bad news for unions is that young people are also notoriously bad at turning out to vote in odd year and non-November elections, which are exactly the type elections the unions are going to need to get their potential supporters to the polls for.

Very important to labor are the upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court election, the Wisconsin recall elections, a 2011 ballot referendum in Ohio and, to a lesser degree, a potential union-backed 2011 ballot measure in California. All of them would be traditionally low turnout, off-cycle elections....................