Ms. | Five Takeaways From Watching First-Time Voters Deliberate Healthcare
August 8, 2024
From July 19 to 22, I attended America in One Room: The Youth Vote, a Washington, D.C., gathering of 500 first-time voters discussing policy issues. The voters constituted a representative sample of young Americans from diverse backgrounds, all ages 17 and 18. Throughout the weekend, participants read through relevant policy proposals, deliberated in small groups, heard from expert panels and completed surveys on their views as part of a deliberative polling experiment.
