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Conservative columnist Rich Lowry, blogging just now:
One side effect of McCain’s debate gambit is, I’m told, that everyone at Ole Miss now hates him. It will make for a very hostile audience tonight among those students and faculty attending. He might have to apologize for creating the uncertainty or make some explanation up front, which is never ideal.
Via the blog Bitch PhD comes a link to an online Student Voting Rights Guide from the Brennan Center for Justice.
It’s an interactive guide — you specify whether you’re voting on campus or from your pre-college hometown, and it shows you the regulations on registration, residency, identification, and absentee voting for all fifty states. The rules show up as a color-coded map, and you can click through for specific information.
It’s a great resource for activists planning GOTV campaigns. Spread the word!
When the opinion editors of the Wall Street Journal examined post-Palin polls, they found youth support for McCain mired at a dismal 33%, exactly where it was before he picked Palin as his veep.
They then wrote up these findings in a 750-word article titled “Palin’s Entry Gives GOP Ticket Shot at Capturing Youth Vote.”
Well played, WSJ.
History geeks may want to check out the Free Speech Movement Digital Archive, a collection of documents from, and writing about, the historic Berkeley protests of 1964-65.
We’ve added the link to our collection at left.
From Details magazine, of all places, comes a profile of gay 21-year-old Marquette University undergrad Jason Rae, the youngest superdelegate to this month’s Democratic National Convention.
studentactivism.net 
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