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Youth Decay

Sam Graham-Felson’s February 2007 Nation article on the Barack Obama youth brigades makes for interesting reading in retrospect. At the time, Graham-Felson was on the magazine’s “youth” beat, from which perch many a young writer has forecast many a burgeoning progressive youth movement that never emerged. The interesting twist here is that SG-F eventually went to work for Barack Obama and Obama’s youth team actually did wrack up huge margins among young voters and bring them to the polls in big numbers.

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