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Not too many kids tell their parents who to vote for when they're 5 years old or ask their fourth-grade teacher to watch the presidential inauguration. But what would you expect from a 21-year-old superdelegate?

Jason Rae went from being a U.S. Senate page to the youngest elected representative of the Democratic National Committee while he was in high school. He actually couldn't vote when he was first elected because he was six months shy of 18.

But he wanted to represent what he calls "America's next generation." So, he and his friends hand-painted posters with the slogan "A ray of hope for the future." It worked. Read full article »