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No-bama 2012: Young voters fed up with economy
wnd.com ^

Posted on 08/18/2012 9:37:11 PM PDT by tsowellfan

Young voters – the ones who so notably turned out for Barack Obama in 2008 – are fed up with being unemployed, and many are beginning to turn against the president’s big-government solutions to America’s economic woes.

One group tracking this turnaround is Generation Opportunity, or GO, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that seeks to mobilize Americans aged 18-29 toward “real solutions” to joblessness and the flailing economy.

GO boasted this past week that its family of Facebook pages – with names like “We Like Small Government” and “Gas Prices Are too D— High” – have topped over 4 million “likes” and growing, fueled by a young demographic that polls show is increasingly disillusioned with Obama’s economic policies.

“Every day, young Americans search for meaningful, full-time jobs in a career of their choice and, instead, experience first-hand the stark reality imposed by the poor economy,” states Paul. T. Conway, president of GO and a former chief of staff of the U.S. Department of Labor. “Rather than resorting to pessimism, however, young adults are taking a harder look at who and what is creating barriers to economic opportunity...

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2012; youthvote Comment #1 Removed by Moderator

To: tsowellfan
JOBS ? You don't need no stinking job !


2 posted on 08/18/2012 9:41:52 PM PDT by timestax (Why not drug tests for the President AND all White Hut staff ? ? ?)
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To: tsowellfan

>> MARK LEVIN: The truth is, ladies and gentlemen, the truth is, if you’re a parent or a grandparent, this election is not about us. It’s not about parents and grandparents.

Exactly.

It’s unfortunate the youth vote cannot grasp who’s really looking out for them.


3 posted on 08/18/2012 9:46:11 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: timestax

Golly miss molly!!!! Guess this is “Hope” and “Change” they can’t live with!!!

Too bad!

Maybe they will learn to listen to those idiot professors a little less. They all live in a dream world where they work a few hours a week and get big bucks and don’t understand REAL work and the meaning of money.


4 posted on 08/18/2012 9:46:27 PM PDT by ZULU (See: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=D9vQt6IXXaM&hd)
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To: timestax
Yes, but at least one young knucklehead of my acquaintance is blaming greedy businessmen for outsourcing.

It doesn't occur to her that busiensses would not outsource if hiring domestically would be more profitable. And her idol Obama is making that harder and harder.

5 posted on 08/18/2012 9:50:39 PM PDT by Lysandru
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To: tsowellfan

We had to remove your post because you included the entire article from RealClearPolitics.com.

Copyright restrictions require that all material from RealClearPolitics.com be excerpted to 300 words
or less. However when the entire article is less than 600 words long, you should remove at least
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Thanks.


6 posted on 08/18/2012 9:52:59 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Admin Moderator

Thanks for the info. Sorry about that.


7 posted on 08/18/2012 10:00:48 PM PDT by tsowellfan (Voting for Obama/Biden is like purposely swallowing two tapeworms)
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To: timestax

Gas prices are high because of economic globalism and foreign cultural romanticism in western economic leaders (favored political constituents). Fuel prices will go much higher. The dollar will fall far by the same cause to adjust to our relative lack of domestic production and trade deficits. Same cause against American jobs. Regulations against manufacturing, especially local regulations against new, small manufacturing starts (e.g., zoning), should be abolished.


8 posted on 08/18/2012 10:11:56 PM PDT by familyop (Duncan Hunter or no-vote.)
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To: Gene Eric

It’s good that college aged liberals are getting mugged by the very liberalism they’ve nursed on for the past 16+ years.


9 posted on 08/18/2012 10:50:12 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: FReepers; RedMDer
Hey Obama,


Please Donate!


10 posted on 08/18/2012 10:57:10 PM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: Lysandru

Does she blame greedy businessmen for the food in the grocery store, air conditioning and shoes?


11 posted on 08/18/2012 10:57:51 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Lysandru
Yes, but at least one young knucklehead of my acquaintance is blaming greedy businessmen for outsourcing.

Ask her what she thinks about the thousands of newly legal workers without jobs that Obama granted amnesty to. Whose jobs will they be doing while more US citizens are looking for work?

12 posted on 08/18/2012 11:07:49 PM PDT by eggman (End the Obama occupation of the White House!)
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To: timestax

The Screwed Generation is discovering who really screwed them.


13 posted on 08/19/2012 12:02:28 AM PDT by TChad
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To: timestax
"No-bama 2012: Young voters fed up with economy..."

..... Unfortunately for this country, I am hearing more and more from the newly "Politically Aware" youthful voters that there is a fast growing grassroots movement with the intent of using their right to vote as a protest vote .... against the political machine in this country.

Yes they are fed up with this administration ..... but the propaganda machine of the left has done its job all too well and have poisoned their minds against the GOP also.

The plan, I am hearing that is gaining momentum in the social network universe, is to either vote "Third Party" or write in their favorite non political candidate such as one of the joke candidates ..... ie ... Boot Head, Vermin Supreme, Cthulhu etc. or some cartoon character from the Cartoon Network ... etc .... etc. They want to make a statement about the disfunctional American political system.

Unfortunately for the United States of America though.... these newly minted voters are not truly aware of the grave repercussions of this movement.

14 posted on 08/19/2012 12:30:39 AM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: ZULU

WHAT! disappointed in your leader, hope this is a lesson your......propagandist leftist commie professor didnt teach you! guess what? HE LIED! YOU FELL FOR IT AND NOW YOUR LIVING AT HOME WITH NO JOB AND NO PROSPECTS FOR A FUTURE. Your vote counts use it!


15 posted on 08/19/2012 3:42:31 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (BB)
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To: R_Kangel

That’s fine with me. If these were Obama voters in 2008 and they’re not Obama voters today, then so be it. Think of them like the Ralph Nader voters in 2000.


16 posted on 08/19/2012 4:46:31 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: onyx

First time I've seen that photo. I like it!

17 posted on 08/19/2012 6:50:24 AM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: onyx

LOL!


18 posted on 08/19/2012 1:28:46 PM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93destr)
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To: ronnie raygun

BINGO.


19 posted on 08/19/2012 7:57:27 PM PDT by ZULU (See: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=D9vQt6IXXaM&hd)
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