Stalking the wily Millennials …
One of the enduring challenges for America’s election departments is to somehow persuade our younger citizens — described collectively as the Millennials — to register and vote. New crosstabs from the 2008 General Election show that, despite all the ho-ha about the Obama campaign jazzing younger voters, in Washington state, the turnout among 18 to 24 year olds was nothing to write home about. We previously noted that the August primary turnout among these young voters was a puny 18 percent, the…