Paul, might have become a regular stop for ambitious young Democrats seeking high office.
Currently, she is national vice president of the Young Democrats of America and serves on the boards of the D.
They also made appearances at two late-night events in Los Angeles, including one for the Saxophone Club of young Democrats.
In a few years, the best of the young Democrats elected to the legislature in 1996 will be competing for, and perhaps winning, statewide races.
Young Democrats at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's student union stuck address labels to stacks of mail flyers, while, one floor up, College Republicans brainstormed on how to increase interest in the November 7 elections.
Young Democrats at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campaigned to get out the vote and listened to former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis speak on the importance of grass-roots politics.
Social Democrats, young Christian Democrats and even Greens favoured the mission.
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Nor can Democrats count on young people forever remaining Democrats.
Minding the speeding bodies are the grown-up versions of student-body presidents, save-the-rainforest activists and no-longer-so-Young Republicans and Democrats.
And they are ready to form a coalition with the Christian Democrats under their young lawyer-leader, Christian Wulff (see article), who last time got 36.4%.
The problem is that Abhisit Vejjajiva, the Democrats' leader, though young and handsome, may not command enough respect to lead a fractious government.
Democrats rode a demographic wave of young and non-white voters joining with its traditional liberal base, leaving Republicans with a shrinking number of older white voters.
The Liberal Democrats have courted the support of young people with promises to scrap tuition fees - and defeated Conservative leadership candidate Kenneth Clarke attacked the funding system.
Groups that work with young people and minorities, who tend to favour the Democrats, promise big outreach programmes.
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That new brand will play well with Independent voters, conservative Democrats, Tea Party Members, Ron Paul voters, young voters, small business and investors.
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Although Republicans hope to attract more young voters and minorities, and to come closer to matching the Democrats' vote-tech edge, the GOP has a long way to go and relatively little time.
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Democrats explain away those numbers by saying that they are turning out new young Ohio voters.
But Julian Castro, the young Latino and Democratic mayor of San Antonio, which is 60% Hispanic, says Democrats should not take Latinos for granted.
Steve Webb, work and pensions spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, said it was a "national disgrace" that one in five young people were now unemployed.
Meanwhile, Democrats are focusing their social media and voter-contact technology on engaging minorities and young people to turn out next year.
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Today, it is Republicans who are distrusted, partly because so many oppose affirmative action, and partly because, as Mr Perryman observes, the people young blacks see coaching sports teams and doing other good works in their communities are almost all Democrats.
The Democrats, in contrast, must reinvigorate two of their key constituencies, Latinos and the young.
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They include college Republicans and Democrats, and if they reflect opinion polls, they also include the growing segment of young people registered as independents, people who say that partisan bickering is one of the things they don't like about the political parties.
For the Liberal Democrats, Peter Black AM said Mr Clarke "was a persistent fighter whose campaigns on behalf of young people have helped to set the agenda in Wales for many years to come".
Meanwhile, Democrats are giddy, believing they have found a winning formula for the next generation by turning out young folks, gay and lesbian folks, black voters, Latino voters and lots of women.
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