16 years old voters

[DuncanONeil]

As I said many give credit to Wilson, but there is some indication that Taft and Roosevelt were also involved in the movement.

True Roosevelt was President before Wilson but the Progressives came to be in 1912, the year Wilson was elected.

It does help if we can all agree on the terminology.

And I thought ole Teddy Rosevelt was a progressive and came before Wilson.

[DuncanONeil]

[QUOTE=thir;847233]I see your point, and thank you for this little research from the homefront :-)
But, I maintain the thought:

• Are adult voters really thinking differently?

[DuncanONeil]

Schools use mock elections here as well. But many don't like the idea, often based on the results almost always being overwhelmingly liberal.

Know what you say about the growth of debt. Sold a property and used a portion of receipts to, literally, clear my CC debt. In roughly two years right back at the same level.

With CC one of the major problems is that it is not really seen as money!

Ouch. Not a good way to start. But I am reminded of the lastest talk here (UK) about just how much people owe. It is thought that this over-consumption is brought about by the ease with which to get credit cards. You run up debt and it is growing out of control by the interest.
In addition the banks were handing out loans left and right to anyone who could sign their name.

My point is, of course, that we adults don't always to so well either. Surely experience is important, very important. But fresh ways of thinking might also?

I am thinking of programs from high school in DK where the students made mock elections as a project in connection with an actual election, and their discussions about why they would vote for X or Z, or start their own party ;-)