While voter apathy among the 18-24 demographis is notoriously high, exciting races spur involvement, and Obama is, if nothing else, high profile.
Rev. Canon Sally Bingham, founder and president of Interfaith Power and Light, offers some insightful reflections on this matter in a short video the U.S. Bahá'í community recently produced to help spur involvement in the preach-In.
Indeed, Harry Redknapp has been a bit of trailblazer by foregoing Spurs' involvement in the traditional English reserve league, choosing instead to loan out younger peripheral players to lower division sides.
One obvious gap, however, as Patterson himself readily acknowledges, is that his book was written before he could adequately consider whether the Sept. 11 attacks might spur political involvement -- or perhaps further dampen interest.
The study shows that virtual reality and spatial modelling integrated in gaming platforms using widely available information and communications technology (ICT) applications has the potential to spur public involvement in urban planning processes, which increases the public's attention to urban planning on the social, environmental and low carbon dimensions.
That Stoudemire is coaching rather than playing does not disappoint the Canadian organizers, who see his involvement as spurring interest in their team and in the international Maccabi sports movement.
Jim's experience at Enterprise spurred his involvement in politics.
Members of the local celebrity community, including Cameron Diaz, Liv Tyler, Rosario Dawson, Anjelica Huston and Emily Deschanel, as well as Lexus Hybrid Living partners such as VeeV, Livingreen, Real Food Daily, Guayaki, Good Karma, Glow Gluten Free, and Kiktavi, spur additional direct involvement at a grass-roots level.
One of the owners of the New York Hamptons, the World Team Tennis franchise, said that tennis needed to spur more fan involvement to regain the popularity it had in the 70's and 80's, when a generation of talented and outgoing male stars spurred interest.
Veronica's involvement spurred Martha back into action.
The 1980 Irpinia earthquake was the first Italian crisis that truly spurred on Mafia involvement in reconstruction and public works.
