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The president of the University of Florida’s “Gators for McCain,” one of the nation’s largest pro-McCain student organizations, is voting for Barack Obama.
In about eighteen hours I’m flying to Ohio, where I’ll be doing campaign work through to the election, and I’ve got a lot to take care of between now and then, so I’m unlikely to post again before Saturday afternoon at the earliest.
You leave a link to work that you’re doing or work that you’ve heard about in the comments, and I’ll bump the news up to a post of its own when I get back to the keyboard tomorrow.
An effigy of Barack Obama was found hanged from a tree on the campus of the University of Kentucky today. The effigy was discovered and reported by a faculty member early this morning, and an investigation by campus and local police is underway.
In a statement, UK president Lee Todd called the act “despicable.”
This is the second such incident to occur on a college campus this year. In late September, an effigy of Obama was hanged on the campus of George Fox University, a small Christian college in Oregon.
Gallup has a long essay up analyzing the data on youth voting in 2008. In short, they’re expecting youth turnout to rise in line with increased turnout throughout the electorate this year, but say that if the youth vote is particularly high, it could represent a 1-2 point shift in Obama’s favor on election day.
The Chronicle of Higher Education is reporting on Rock the Vote’s efforts to combat voter suppression among college student voters.
There’s a great trove of data on the youth vote past and present at the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.
studentactivism.net 
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