What is the claim of this text?: In the two months leading up to Election Day this past November, our tenth grade social studies class conducted its own presidential campaign. Supporters for each major
candidate volunteered for different jobs in the campaign. These jobs included writing
press releases, distributing flyers, leading rallies, and conducting polls. After the
election, we took one final survey of all 218 tenth-grade students to determine how our
campaign had affected their level of interest in the real election. Not only was interest
heightened by our campaign, but 98 percent of the students also expressed some
resentment that they had not been allowed to vote in the actual election. Their message
was clear. Young people deserve to have a say in the direction of the county so the
voting age should be lowered to 16.