Voters under the age of 30 comprised 18 percent of Colorado’s turnout in 2008, outnumbering voters over the age of 65, and that injection of youth helped hand President Barack Obama a comfortable nine-point victory there. The big question going into 2012: Can Obama replicate those turnout numbers among younger voters?Obama’s win over Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) marked only the fourth time since World War II that a Democratic presidential candidate won Colorado. The president was bolstered by robust support from Latinos in the state to be sure, but the turnout among young voters — a voting bloc often dismissed as apathetic and unreliable — was staggering.
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