Abortion, Economics Key Issues For Young Voters

  • Adina Young and Casey Labrack - Washington Post
  • Mar 4, 2008

A candidate's position on abortion could be the issue that gets young voters into the voting booth this year.

In an American University online survey last month of 18-to-29-year-olds in four battleground states, 23 percent of the 128 respondents said that they definitely would not vote for a candidate who disagreed with them on abortion policy. Forty percent said that they might consider changing their vote over abortion policy, but that it would depend on a candidate's views on other issues. One-third of the respondents answered that a candidate's position on abortion "wouldn't really matter" to them if they agreed with the candidate on most other issues.

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