Can the Internet draw young people to the voting booth in 2008?
By Joshua Garner Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Internet can empower young people to be the deciding factor in the 2008 presidential election, according to representatives from the Internet’s most popular social networking sites who met at George Washington University in early June. But in interviews with Catholic News Service, a pair of political science professors from Catholic universities said they were not as sure the Internet would have as great an impact as the panelists indicated and that politicians flooding young people with campaign material on the Internet may be providing too much information too soon. One of them, Stephen Schneck, chair of the politics department and director of the Life Cycle Institute at The Catholic University of America, told CNS that increases in voter turnout among the young have been minimal in recent elections and he expects the same in 2008. But speakers at an event titled “The Future of Political Communication: Connecting With You
