Jacob Soboroff

Politics Contributor

Jacob Soboroff is executive director of Why Tuesday?, a non-partisan group working to increase voter participation, and the correspondent for MTV's Power of 12 election campaign. Jacob hosts "AMC News" on AMC, and SoCal Wanderer, an online video series about outdoor life in Southern California, for KCET. Jacob hosted the NBC series "School Pride" and executive produced and narrated the AMC original documentary "Committed," directed by Oscar and Emmy nominee Morgan Spurlock. He has contributed reporting to CNN, NPR's "Weekend Edition," and the PBS/Wired Magazine series "Wired Science." Jacob is a member of the associates board of City Year Los Angeles.

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Why Saturday is a great day for Democracy.
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Our voter participation rates are in the toilet? So why are we still voting the same way we did in the 1840s?
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American voter participation is terrible, and has been for half a century. Recent laws rolling back voting rights haven’t made things any better. So why are we still doing things the same way as in the 1850s?
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Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum share their thoughts on Weekend Voting.
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What will the presidential candidate do to protect your right to vote?
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What will the presidential candidate do to protect your right to vote?
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What will the presidential candidate do to protect your right to vote?