We spoke with Felicia Sullivan, Senior Researcher at CIRCLE, who broke the numbers down for us, and explained why her team believes this high youth turnout is the "new normal," and politicians should prepare to reckon with a powerful generation of voters.
They roll their eyes when I ask who a "typical" bike thief is – there are no demographic trends that they're prepared to reveal but they reckon they can spot a thief by the way he looks at a bike (no sexism there: out of 250 arrests, not a single one has been female).
"We reckon if people are prepared to pay for the app, they are going to be more serious about using it — so that was the real reason behind charging".
In the WEEI interview, Mr. Schilling said that a gaming company had been prepared to sign a $35 million publishing deal for his console game, Reckoning.
People have since reckoned that, if China's leadership were prepared to shoot down civilians, it might also be prepared to tear up its promises to Hong Kong.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) said Merkel had wasted her energies having been prepared to take the wind out of Steinbrück's sails, because, the paper reckoned, he had come "without any wind".
"They reckoned, and they were right, that he had already got a pretty good deal and here he was, coming back for more, which they weren't prepared to give".
Abyei has become the most combustible issue that Sudan must reckon with as it prepares to split in two.
The Treasury made its forecast after factoring in changes to banks' willingness to pay out big bonuses because of the tax, although pay experts reckon that banks are preparing to shoulder the tax and pay out the bonuses regardless.
John Pike of Global Security, a Washington defence consultancy, reckons that the Pentagon is preparing to fight on until the spring.Some of the marines' immediate targets became clear within hours of their arrival.
