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ADVANCE SERVICES Franklin, Massachusetts (508) 520-2076 10 1 - 231 H A R V A R D U N I V E R S I T Y JOHN F. KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT INSTITUTE OF POLITICS CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT: YOUNG VOTERS, LESSONS LEARNED2004 Wednesday April 27, 2005 Penthouse Littauer Building 79 JFK Street Cambridge, Massachusetts BEFORE:PHILIP SHARP Director Institute of Politics Kennedy School of Government ADVANCE SERVICES Franklin, Massachusetts (508) 520-2076 PARTICIPANTS: Alexandra Acker, Democratic GAIN Carrie Anderson, Student Kristin Blagg, Student Melanie Campbell, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation Gary Davis, World Wrestling Entertainment Meighan Davis, AFL-CIO Organizing Institute John Della Volpe, Schneiders/Della Volpe/Schulman Ben Ferguson, Host, The Ben Ferguson Show Jane Fleming, Young Democrats of America Ron Fournier, The Associated Press Ryan Friedrichs, Skyline Public Works Ivan Frishberg, Grassroots Campaigns, Inc. Jehmu Greene, Rock the Vote Eric Hoplin, College Republican National Committee David King, Institute of Politics Jeffrey Levine, Rutgers University, Eagleton Institute Alexis McGill, Citizen Change Cathy McLaughlin, Institute of Politics Tom McSorley, Student David Nickerson, Notre Dame Jennifer Phillips, Institute of Politics April Rapp, Rutgers University, Eagleton Institute Jordan Sekulow, Ralph Reed for Lt. Governor, Georgia Susan Sherr, Rutgers University, Eagleton Institute ADVANCE SERVICES Franklin, Massachusetts (508) 520-2076 PARTICIPANTS: Continued, Rebecca Sinderbrand, Newsweek Heather Smith, New Voters Project Kate Snow, ABC News, "Good Morning America, Weekend Edition" Elise Stefanik, Student Jaime Uzeta, MTV: Music Television Tobi Walker, The Pew Charitable Trusts Hugh Weber, Young Voters Strategies Project. Paloma Zapeda, Student ADVANCE SERVICES Franklin, Massachusetts (508) 520-2076 4 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 (12:08 p.m.) 3 MR. SHARP: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to 4 the Institute of Politics and to this wonderful forum 5 that many of you have been involved in helping to bring 6 about. My name is Phil Sharp, I'm the Acting Director 7 at the Institute. And you may or may not have seen the 8 news, but we will have our new director coming up, a 9 former Governor of New Hampshire, Jean Shaheen, who is 10 going to be a fantastic addition here at the Kennedy 11 School. 12 But I'm delighted to see what you are trying to 13 accomplish today for two reasons, one is, as a 14 recovering politician myself, in my very first election 15 in 1970 in the last millennia, I won my first primary 16 by one vote per polling place, by 400 votes and seven 17 people, so I have a particular interest in the notion 18 that every vote counts because I would have been 19 counted out very quickly in that proposition. I also 20 always win narrowly, so maybe I was just a poor 21 politician. But the fact is that they do and, last 22 fall, they really did count, and young people came out, 23 and despite the fact that some commentators seemed to 24 get the message wrong, as you folks know and will be ADVANCE SERVICES Franklin, Massachusetts (508) 520-2076 5 1 reiterated here, we did see a considerable upsurge in 2 the voting by young people. We think that was heavily 3 concentrated among college students, who tend to turn 4 out better than their peers. 5 And from my perspective and I think from all 6 our perspectives, it went well beyond that, there was 7 an intense interest that showed up in voting, there was 8 an intense interest that showed up in taking the 9 campaign seriously, there was an intense interest that 10 showed up in people's participation in the campaigns. 11 And as I think our polling data will show when it's 12 presented, that interest seems to have held and 13 continued, despite the usual kind of predictions where 14 all the people who don't win their way, or whatever, or 15 after they've won their way, they'll all fall off again 16 and be indifferent to politics. And this represents a 17 very significant change over the last six to eight 18 years in the country with this revival of interest 19 among young Americans, which many of us feel is 20 critical to our democratic institutions. 21 The second, apart from my own personal and 22 selfish reason to get people to vote, no longer in my 23 life but at one point, is we at the Institute of 24 Politics, have a long history, since 1972, of ADVANCE SERVICES Franklin, Massachusetts (508) 520-2076 6 1 sponsoring something called Campaign Decision Makers 2 where we get the people who led the various campaigns, 3 usually against each other, to come in and sit at a 4 table like this, in a reasonably civil fashion, and to 5 discuss what went on, what they thought was successful, 6 what they thought they were doing to each other for 7 their own campaign, and to answer questions from 8 journalists, as is going to happen here, in that 9 process. 10 And over the years, we've produced that 11 transcript about the American campaigns and while maybe 12 the general public is not buying it immediately and 13 it's at the top of the list, the best seller list, the 14 fact is that journalists involved in politics, people 15 involved in running campaigns often go back to those 16 volumes for insights into how things are done and 17 strategic decisions are made. So, in a way, we are 18 going to replicate that here with the recognition that 19 many of you were involved in organizational efforts 20 last fall to see if you couldn't engage your colleagues 21 in voting, in participation in campaigns and to see 22 what you think worked, in hopes of enlightening others 23 that follow in your footsteps has to how we might make 24 sure this revival of student interest is sustained. ADVANCE SERVICES Franklin, Massachusetts (508) 520-2076 7 1 Well, with that, I think our goal here, Elise, 2 all of our programs are run by our students, virtually, 3 and Elise is vice president of our student association. 4 I think we are going to go around the room, am I 5 correct? And have everybody introduce themselves. 6 MS. STEFANIK: Yes. I'm just going to say a 7 quick welcome on behalf of the students. I want to, 8 before we begin, give special thanks to Kristin, and 9 Carrie and Adam who, as students, were basically the 10 liaisons who planned this conference, and also a 11 special thanks to Jennifer Phillips and Laura Simolaris 12 for all their planning on this. Director Sharp 13 actually took my, I was going to talk about the 14 campaign managers conference but, as is probably not 15 surprising, every four years, when we have a Campaign 16 Decision Makers Conference, we don't spend a lot of 17 time talking about whether the youth turned out or did 18 not turn out. And I think, for this reason, it's such 19 a pleasure to have all of our guests here today. 20 And I hope that the Campaign Decision Makers 21 Conference, that this becomes something we do every 22 four years so we can really build upon how to reach out 23 to young voters because it is an important constituency 24 that is often overlooked. So, with that, I'm going to ADVANCE SERVICES Franklin, Massachusetts (508) 520-2076 8 1 go around this way and introduce ourselves. Again, I'm 2 Elise, I'm a junior at the college and I'm Vice 3 President of the Institute of Politics. 4 MR. FLYNN: I just want to make one 5 housekeeping thing, the short mics are for the 6 recording of this event, they will not be amplified, 7 and the taller mikes are for the microphones. If you 8 have a soft voice, just use the tall mikes but if you 9 can belt it out, that's all right too. 10 MR. ZAPEDA: I'm Paloma Zapeda, I'm a junior at 11 Harvard College and I'm a member at large of the 12 Student Advisory Committee of the Institute. 13 MR. WEBER: Good morning. My name is Hugh 14 Weber. At this previous cycle, I was Director of 15 Political Education and Training at the RNC, and now 16 I'm serving as a consultant with Heather Smith and the 17 Young Voters Strategies Project. 18 MR. FERGUSON: My name is Ben Ferguson, I'm a 19 syndicated talk show host, as well as an author, and 20 acted as a surrogate for the Bush/Cheney Campaign 21 during the last during the last election specifically 22 speaking with young people around the country. 23 MS. DAVIS: I'm Meighan Davis, I was the 24 Organizing Director for the youth arm of moveon.org ADVANCE SERVICES Franklin, Massachusetts (508) 520-2076 9 1 this cycle and right now I'm at the AFL/CIO. 2 MS. FLEMING: I'm Jane Fleming, I'm the 3 Executive Director of the Young Democrats of America 4 and was part of the team that headed up our project 5 called the Young Voter Alliance which was a peer to 6 peer contact project I'll talk about later. 7 MR. HOPLIN: Good day. My name is Eric Hoplin, 8 I'm the National Chairman of the Colleage Republican 9 National Committee. 10 MS. ACKER: My name is Alexandra Acker, I was 11 the National Youth Outreach Director for the Kerry 12 Campaign and I currently work for Democratic GAIN, as 13 their Regional Training Director.
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