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That changed Tuesday, when, for the first time since 1972, at least half of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 voted, according to preliminary statistics from the Center of Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.
The trend began in 2004, when 48 percent of young people turned out, up from 37 percent in 1996 and 41 percent in 2000.
But this time, the numbers were heavily in the Democrats' favor as exit polls showed 66 percent of the youth voted for Obama, compared with 54 percent for John Kerry in 2004 and 48 percent for Al Gore in 2000.
The youth voter turnout is, of course, good for the democratic process, said Robert Watson, director of American studies at Lynn University. It's also good for the Democratic Party.
Watson said that every two years he watches his students register to vote during campus drives, only to discover they didn't cast a ballot.
But this year he was predicting a record turnout among young voters for four reasons: the Internet, major economic woes that affect people of all ages, the war in Iraq and, perhaps most important, the Obama factor.
Like with John Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt and Teddy Roosevelt, there was a siren song, a call-to-arms issue, call to service, Watson said. Obama had a profound emotional connection with our students, and he brought them out

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