Vermont teenagers find their political voices

Brandon Blau, 15, of Jay, may be the only student in a gaggle of several dozen Green Mountain State teenagers sporting a Bernie Sanders campaign button, but he says it speaks for a majority of Vermont youth.

“I’m going to estimate that 90 to 95 percent here support Bernie,” he says of the U.S. senator’s presidential bid. “I wear this every day because I feel I have to represent him as much as he represents us.”

Grace Young, a 16-year-old Colchester volunteer for gubernatorial candidate Matt Dunne, is just as politically committed — if not a bit surprised by her recent stints on the campaign’s phone bank.

“People shockingly don’t know the primary is Aug. 9,” she says. “They often don’t even know who the candidates are.”

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