College Students Not Stoked About Midterm Elections

In this Majority Report clip, neither voting nor talking to the Today Show rank high on these students' priorities.

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"MSNBC reporter Jacob Soboroff surprised a group of California students minding their business at a bus stop to shout questions about voting. And to the surprise of absolutely nobody (except, apparently, Soboroff, who called the experience “shocking”), things played out pretty much exactly as you’d expect.

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The larger point that Soboroff—a legitimately good journalist who earlier this year was instrumental in bringing to light the deplorable conditions in undocumented immigrant youth prisons—was trying to make is a valid one; So-called “youth voters” do indeed head to the polls at rates well below that of other age groups. And there are, in fact, serious grassroots efforts to reverse that trend.

But, uh, it seems there might be better ways to highlight this problem than ambushing a bunch of college students waiting for a bus."*

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