For better or worse, it's been a Baby Boomers' world for so long it's hard for many Americans to imagine it otherwise. In presidential politics, this may be the year to think again.
A new generation of American voters -- young, with its own perspective, and newly engaged -- is locking in deep and early on the '08 campaign. They've already profoundly shaped the competition. And they're just getting started.
This hour, On Point: new visions, new voters, new politics -- we're talking with young American voters about what they want in a new president in 2008.
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Matthew Yglesias, Associate Editor at the Atlantic Monthly. He is 26 years old.
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Steven Spruiell, staff writer for National Review and National Review Online. He is 28 years old.
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Anna Couturier, a sophomore majoring in women in gender studies and politics at Columbia University.
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Rachel Zelkowitz, a senior majoring in political science and journalism at Emory University, where she is Executive Editor of The Emory Wheel.
