One-on-One with Oakland's Precocious Kid Pollster

If you live in Oakland and care even vaguely about local politics, Ryan Schwertfeger is a young man with whom you're likely familiar.

Schwertfeger, who turned 18 this month, has been conducting political polls of residents in the borough since 2010. His appearance outside the Oakland Post Office — clipboard in hand —  is widely understood to herald the beginning of the borough's political season. 

The Indian Hills High School senior posts his poll results and candidate interviews to his own website and circulates the videos on YouTube and, this year, on, route: {:controller=>"articles", :action=>"show", :id=>"schwertfeger-interviews-incumbent-council-candidate-chris-visconti"} -->