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    <body><![CDATA[i read this for my social democracy seminar, and it ended up being the basis of my term paper that semester on the youth vote. <br/><br/>then i started actually giving copies of this book to my friends who said they didn't vote for various reasons, but was finally told that was annoying. (hah!) bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3636682">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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