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Pity the poor folks at MTV and Rock the Vote.(The Week)(Brief Article)

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* Pity the poor folks at MTV and Rock the Vote. They want to get young people interested in Democratic politicians--remember how they swooned for Clinton and Gore?--but this year, it's just not working. A new poll from Harvard University's Institute of Politics shows why: The nation's college students, it turns out, like George W. Bush. The Harvard pollsters found that 61 percent of students approve of the job Bush is doing as president--a number that is substantially higher than results of general-public polls taken at the same time. "The conventional view that the majority of ...

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