Although many feel apathetic about voting or lack the resources needed to cast a ballot, in some places, momentum is building among Appalachian youth.
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Voting
A High Schooler’s Perspective On Lowering The Voting Age
High school and college students are becoming more politically active than our country has seen in generations. It’s people under the age of 18 who have led marches on Washington to end gun violence in schools and called on our leaders to take real action toward slowing climate change and […]
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If Trump’s Rural Edge Has Eroded, What Does that Mean for Electoral Math?
The latest Fox News poll suggests Donald Trump’s rural advantage has dropped by two-thirds since 2016. When is a lead not a lead? When it’s a mere 9-point advantage for Donald Trump among rural voters, which is what the latest Fox News poll is reporting. In 2016, Trump won the rural vote […]
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Formerly Disenfranchised Kentucky Voters Cast Their Ballots
This piece was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. For many in the Ohio Valley, voting is a choice, a right they are free to exercise if they want to. But for Jackie McGranahan and the more than 175,000 other formerly disenfranchised Kentuckians, this primary election is special. It’s her […]
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