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College Students Vote Smarter Than Expected

(10/2/2009)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091001164225.htm

College students make strategic choices about where to vote, most prefer absentee ballots, and they are especially likely to vote absentee if their homes are in swing states, according to a new Northwestern University study of student absentee voting in the 2008 presidential election.

»Read full article in ScienceDaily.

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