California Young Democrats, a group of college-age members of the Democratic Party, are thrilled with the recent attention they’re getting from Democratic presidential candidates.

This month, Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton all spoke to young voters. Bill Clinton spoke at a youth rally on Tuesday at the UC-Davis. On Wednesday, Hillary Clinton appeared at two rallies on college campuses including California State University Northridge and UC-Santa Barbara. All three events were co-sponsored by their campus’ College Democrats chapter.

And last week, Chelsea Clinton visited with college-aged Democratic voters at UC-Los Angeles, Hastings College of Law in San Francisco and Stanford University.

Young Democrats spokeswoman Claire Conlon credits the presidential interest in college-age voters to the high turn-out among young people in the Iowa caucus for Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, votes that helped him beat chief rival, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton.

“In Iowa, Sen. Barack Obama treated young people as voters, not just campaign volunteers,” said Young Democrats spokeswoman Conlon in a press release. “His strategy paid off. In Iowa more than 65,000 people under the age of 30 (more than triple 2004) showed up to vote for a change.”

Obama and Clinton then targeted young people in the New Hampshire primary and increased turnout among young people by 43 percent, Conlon said.

“In both of these contests it was crystal clear that when campaigns invest the resources to target young voters, it pays off,” Conlon said.

“Many young Californians are still undecided and we’ve seen that when a Presidential candidate shows us they care about young people and the issues affecting us, we respond by turning out to the polls,” said California College Democrats President Nick Warshaw, in the same press release. (Click here to link to Warshaw’s article on how young people are changing politics.) “With over 4.6 million young people in California, young people will be the key demographic for campaigns to target on Feb. 5. I implore all the presidential candidates to continue to reach out to young people, throughout California, as young people will be the margin of victory this November.”

Historically, the under-30 votes at lower rates than other voters. Will the Feb. 5 primary bring out young people? What do you think?

Photo provided by California Young Democrats was taken Jan. 15 at UC-Davis is of Davis College Democrats President Max Mikalonis introducing President Bill Clinton at an evening rally in support of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton.