In an election season when young voters have made more impact than ever, a quarter of Wisconsin’s eligible voters under 30 participated in Tuesday night’s primary – making youth turnout here equal to Massachusetts and second only to New Hampshire this year.
According to The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement, 220,200 voters under age 30 cast ballots in Tuesday’s primary – 25% of eligible voters in that age group.
At 16 voting wards at or near University of Wisconsin-Madison, Marquette University and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sen. Barack Obama beat Democratic rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton among local college students, grabbing at least 79% of the vote. He was most popular at UW’s Gordon Commons, capturing 87% of the vote there.