Youth at the RNC

This New York Times article on the potential impact of the youth vote was, well, fluffy. It winded up not really saying anything, but I thought this nugget was interesting:

Members under 35 made up 16 percent of the delegates — a record for the party’s national convention, according to the Youth Council of the Democratic National Committee. The Republican National Committee was not able to provide an estimate of the number of young delegates who will gather in St. Paul beginning Monday for that party’s convention.

It will be interesting to see how the Republicans incorporate their younger delegates and activists. At the DNC there was a separate "youth caucus" and other youth-oriented panels and events. I haven’t seen a complete schedule yet, but there hasn’t been a push for lots of separate youth meetings. On the other hand, maybe this means that youth are integrated more with other higher-level individuals. We’ll keep an eye out this week.