Posted on 08/30/2011 10:19:28 AM PDT by tcrlaf
President Obama coasted into the White House thanks in part to the youth vote, individuals aged 18-29 who bought into his vague promise to bring change. During Mr. Obama’s term in office, however, many of this group - known as Millennials - have been forced to learn how to subsist on pocket change. This isn’t quite what they were expecting when they turned out in historic droves in 2008.
According to a recent poll commissioned by Generation Opportunity, 57 percent of Millennials participating said they will learn more about the policy positions of presidential candidates in the 2012 election than they did in 2008. This is bad news for Mr. Obama, who is encumbered with a record that hurts young adults. His $825 billion so-called stimulus robbed the private sector of cash needed for job growth, while Obamacare will squeeze money from these healthiest of Americans through fines and forced participation to subsidize treatment for old sick people.
“Young people are disillusioned after 2008, when the message was change,” points out Surbhi Godsay of the youth-research organization CIRCLE. Now, she says, they’re “concerned about employment.” And for good reason.
Statistics show that Millennials have been hit hard by the high jobless rates around the country. The unemployment rate for 16-24 year-olds is a staggering 18.1 percent, down from the record-breaking high of 19.1 percent a year ago, while 25-34 year-olds face a rate of 9.7 percent, higher than the national average. Among Millennials, “Everybody knows somebody who’s really been struggling to find a job,” explains Paul Conway, president of Generation Opportunity.
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There are millions of Americans who, like me, will not vote for the lesser of 2 evils and, so far, that's all the GOP contenders not named Ron Paul. If we can't get positive change, then let the end get here while I'm still able enough to survive it.
By the time the election gets here next year, the dems will have had 4 years to take the actions necessary to increase the already massive amounts of voter fraud they commit during elections.
Millions of new voters, actual ones, will be voting for the first time next year... naive young people and hordes of the unskilled and uneducated dregs of the third world - who do you think they'll be voting for?
barak hussein's base hasn't gone anywhere and it's in their (short term) interest to re-elect him... as far left as the GOP has moved, they'll never outpromise the dems as far as goodies to the parasite class goes. Maybe a few of his white guilt liberal supporters will have been bitch-slapped by reality enough to pass on him this time, but I doubt there will be any mass defection from his base. The best we can hope for on that front is low turnout of his core supporters.
Face facts - at best, we'll probably get another Reagan, and unlike 1980, a president who just slows the rate of gov't growth isn't nearly good enough anymore. This nation is near the edge of the abyss. We need a president who will go to DC fully and sincerely committed to the drastic reduction in size, expense and power of the federal gov't.
Break that down even further:
12% of the US population is 37 million. One third of that is children under 18 (12.2 million) for a subtotal of 24.8 million. Subtract another 20% who are convicted felons in states where they can't vote (5 million.) Now we're down to a black voting population of 19.8 million.
Black voter turnout in 2008 was a record 65.3%. No way is that going to happen again. Let's be very generous and call it 50% (10 million.) So now we're left with 9.9 million voters, at least 5% of whom will vote Republican (0.5 million.)
Final black vote for Obama (and this IMO is high) would be 9.5 million.
He is toast.
Best thing that ever happened to her in the long run. Grammy Awards, Emmy Awards and still cleaning up every Sunday night on ABC.
Ineligible.
What did you think of the 48 percent of the Boomers who voted for McCain? They really sold us down the river.
At least the young folks are wising up. Last survey I saw that Obama’s still got 52 percent of the 18 or so crowd.
Down 14 points from election day. Best of any age category.
Good thing the boomers got that changed. Funny how when the shoe is on the other foot that they want to change it back...
“If you’re talking about the general election I don’t think so.”
That’s a fact, btw. Boomers split 48/48, between Obama and McCain. Young voters usually don’t make a difference, because of the numbers. The only time they do, is if the older generation has significant support for Obama.
“I’m sure most of them voted holding their noses knowing it was the lesser of two evils.”
Well, not enough of them did and enough stayed home, and enough voted for Obama, to put him in. If they go, say, 43-53 against Obama in 2012, he’s toast.
a correctable mistake was made, no sense making it inviolate.
btw, when the voting age was changed the draft was still around (although close to ending). as long as the government could draft 18 year olds, damn straight they should be able to vote.
“Obama might be happy if he wins CA, IL and NY.”
But, he won’t even “win” California now. They just passed
a law that gives all of their EV to the popular vote winner.
Of course, that will be rescinded within 20 microseconds of the election results.
Yet you believe the ones who volunteer in Iraq and Afghanistan should not?
Obamacare is a terrible deal for everyone, especially folks who expect to receive medical care. An absolute catastrophe.
All 100% unfortunatly. Dead people outnumber conservatives.
My bet is that 90% of them voted for Palin.
Interesting. It just occurred to me that dead people are the ultimate expression of the so-called great moderate/undecided voter.
That must be why democrats are always trying to get their votes!
well, 17 year olds who volunteer currently can’t vote, where’s your feigned outrage for them?
felons can get a waiver and join, even after losing their voting rights. no self-righteous anger for them?
nm, you weren’t being serious, lol
of course there should be pathways to getting the franchise. isn’t literalism fun!
I believe the applicable phrase is:
You can’t reason somebody out of a position they used emotion to arrive at.
I am being serious here.
These young men and women are giving up their lives for their country. If we expect this of them to fight and fight well, then we should also expect them to vote well.
That they do not and choose poorly, is it the fault of the kids or of those who taught them? That the kids have taken their liberal education and are wising up as they hit the real world, tells you everything you need to know about them.
Poorly educated perhaps, but not going to stay liberal.
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