How is Hope and Change working for the Youth Voter?

Youth Vote Slipping from Obama

 

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by Charlie Kirk 17 Aug 2012 

 

"The choice in terms of the direction we want to take the country is very stark this time, so the stakes are big, and I think people want to finish what we started in 2008.” President Obama exclaimed July 15th. The past four years the media has painted a picture that the Obama campaign has an 'army of young volunteers' and that Obama 'shows younger people Hope'.

Most people, including me, believed it. Earlier in the summer, I wrote a piece called "Don’t Surrender the Youth vote to Obama" explaining how the conservative message is starting to take seed in the minds of younger voters. Younger voters are waking up to the mess of the past four years; five trillion in new debt, 8.3% unemployment, a stagnant economy, and a clear lack of leadership is sending 18-24 year olds away from President Obama.
A new poll by John Zogby shows for the first time over 40% of younger voters back Mitt Romney. This number is astounding, considering President Obama has 27 million LIKES on Facebook, 18 million followers on Twitter, and is still considered to be very likable. Although, despite his 'likability" younger generations are tired of the same political talking points, and empty promises. They are looking for a problem solving candidate, or two.

Since the selection of Paul Ryan, we have seen Governor Romney’s youth approval ratings increase steadily. Congressman Ryan brings a youthful approach to politics; he does p90x, listens to Led Zeppelin, and is only 42 years old. But most importantly, he has a solid record of proposing solutions. Many of my friends disagree with Congressman Ryan's solutions; they think they are 'extreme' and 'radical'. He has won over their support because he has a plan and he sticks by it. Something President Obama has failed to do during his tenure as President. Read More

 

Hispanic Media is Asking for More Political Attention

 

WASHINGTON –  AP. Months away from the Presidential debate, the Hispanic television market is calling for more political attention.
Randy Falco, president and chief executive of the Spanish-language network Univision, sent a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates to complain about the lack of a debate tailored for Latino audiences. He asked for an additional debate to speak specifically to Hispanic voters and pitched Univision national news anchors Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas as moderators. The debate commission responded that it strongly believes its chosen moderators "see their assignment as representing all Americans in their choice of topics and questions."

Wouldn't it be a smart investment to reach a voter that nobody is talking to?

- Javier Palomarez, president and CEO of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

The call for more political presence in Spanish-language television is not made in a vacuum. At stake is a rapidly expanding Hispanic TV market that Forbes estimated as worth $1 trillion.
Javier Palomarez, president and CEO of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, announced this week that his group would track spending by political candidates and organizations on Spanish-language television, radio, and in print and online in 10 states through the November elections. A chamber analysis found that in 2010, spending on Spanish-language TV averaged about 3.9 percent, down slightly from just over 4 percent in 2008.
The numbers stand in contrast to reports showing Univision outperforming most English-language networks in certain age groups and specific time slots.

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Oregon Breakthrough in Generating Electricity from Wastewater

By Melissa C. Lott | August 14, 2012

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About 3 percent of the electricity consumed in the United States and other developed nations is used to treat wastewater. But, a technology breakthrough from engineers at Oregon State University could be a key in turning the world’s waste treatment facilities into mini-power plants.

A technology developed by OSU engineers could allow wastewater treatment facilities to produce 10-100 times more electricity (per volume) than previous technologies and approaches. In turn, according to a journal article published in Energy and Environmental Science, large microbial fuel cells could be used to improve the sustainability of the wastewater treatment process.
This approach used by the OSU researchers can be broken down into following steps:

1. Bacteria oxidize the organic matter (a.k.a. poop, milk, etc)
2. This oxidation process produces electrons
3. These electrons flow from the fuel cell’s anode to its cathode
4. This flow of electrons creates an electrical current

Schematic of a portion of OSU's fuel cell technology

OSU’s new microbial fuel cell technology uses reduced anode-cathode spacing, evolved microbes and new separator materials to improve the amount of energy that it can harvest from the organic mater. These improvements allow the fuel cell to produce electricity more efficiently than with anaerobic digestors (which is essentially a process of recovering methane gas from decomposing waste) – and actually treats the wastewater more effectively. Read More

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