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My household get-out-the-vote campaign hits a teen roadblock

WHEN ANOTHER SON WENT OFF TO COLLEGE THIS PAST summer, I made it clear that I required four things of him:

1. Eat vegetables

2. Get good grades

3. Make friends

4. Register to vote

My son is going to school in Pennsylvania, so that last requirement was particularly important, even if he does think battleground state has something to do with Gettysburg, or maybe the Steelers and the Eagles.

In the suburban town where my son grew up, there is a

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