mr. barrett. republicans looking to turn the state that years back was a swing state, that has been reliably blue in recent years. i'm going to go to the magic wall. underscore how important the youth vote is. number one, this is not just the president's day. see the vice president, the democratic party chairman and health and human services secretary on college campuses with the same message to young people, don't sit this out, we need you. let's take a quick look before we get to the event. i want to underscore this matter. in the presidential election voters between the ages of 18 and 29 made up 18% of the electorate and they voted overwhelmingly 2/3 for barack obama. in the 2006 midterms when the democrats surged and took control of congress, 18% to 29% was 12% of the electorate. 12% of the electorate versus 18% of the electorate. 60% for democrats at large. 66% for president obama. what the president wants this year is to try to recreate something like that, to get that number up. many democr