Tag: motivate

How Biden and Trump are trying to motivate apathetic voters

There’s one thing both Republicans and Democrats agree upon when it comes to the 2024 election: Voter apathy is real, and it’s a problem both campaigns are quickly trying to solve. Voters seem increasingly tuned out of the election between two candidates they know well and a third party candidate who might not fit all […]

Bridgewater College seeks to motivate rural youth voters

At a small rural liberal arts college in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, one professor and a small group of students are hoping to increase young voter engagement against the odds. Dr. Bobbi Gentry, an associate professor of political science at Bridgewater College, noticed a need for voter engagement on campus after she launched a project called […]

Democrats believe abortion will motivate voters in 2024. Will it be enough?

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said recently that he was “proud” to have a hand in overturning the abortion protections enshrined in Roe v. Wade, Democratic pollster Celinda Lake took it as a political gift, thinking to herself, “Oh my God, we just won the election.” It may not be that […]