Young People Drawn to Aid in 2008 Race
Indiana high schoolers pitch in for Obama with primary near
The scene in Brian Griffin’s bedroom looks like a cross between a charity telethon and an intense cramming session the night before a final exam.
Mr. Griffin and about 10 of his classmates—fellow members of the Plainfield High School chapter of Students for Barack Obama —are sprawled around the room, cellphones in hand, studying voter databases on their laptops. They’re trying to locate Indiana supporters of the U.S. senator from Illinois and urge them to turn out for the upcoming primary—or better yet, they hope, to volunteer for the campaign.
Most of the students, who are old enough to vote in the Hoosier State’s hotly contested Democratic presidential face-off May 6, say they were leaning to Sen. Obama even before he held a town-hall meeting last month in the gym of their high school in this largely affluent, politically...
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