Posted on 05/16/2014 9:21:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Behold, yet another data point indicating that Obama’s 2012 re-election coalition is splintering or flat-out apathetic heading into the midterm cycle, via the Washington Post:
As this graph illustrates, less than a third of Obama’s 2012 Millennial voters say they’ll “definitely” vote for Democrats this fall. Almost as many have abandoned the party label completely, either by shifting to independent status or by supporting Republicans. When this Democratic pollster tabulates the data, he finds that only half of all the young Obama voters surveyed will definitely, probably, or maybe vote for Democrats in the midterms. The rest plan to sit at home, or to back other candidates. In 2010, Millennial turnout dropped significantly compared to 2008, and the gap between the two parties among those who did vote narrowed considerably. The strategist’s advice to Democrats, therefore, is to “heavily invest” in turning out “progressive Millennials,” pronto. If the party heeds his counsel, expect to hear a lot about gay marriage and birth control over the next six months. Also via WaPo, here’s a chart that employs the (fairly Democrat-friendly) NBC/WSJ polling series to track this year’s fundamentals, comparing the current numbers to surveys conducted before previous midterm waves. Chris Cillizza says the results “should scare Democrats:”
Those indicators — which are also reflected in other public polling — would certainly seem suggest that Democrats are cruisin’ for a bruisin’ this fall. But lest conservatives start counting chickens, allow me to float two friendly reminders: (1) The most vulnerable Senate Democrat incumbent, on paper at least, is leading his (highly impressive) Republican challenger by double digits according to some polls, though others show a very tight race. (2) Republican-held Senate seats in Georgia and Kentucky aren’t necessarily gimmes either. I’ll add one more: Even if young Obama voters do blow off the midterm elections this year, they sure seem pretty susceptible to hype over famous presidential candidates with cool friends and vague, history-making campaign themes. What could go wrong?*
*AP, feel free to just FedEx me the Eeyore crown whenever you have a spare moment.
Reasons behind common core, brain washing at an earlier age. College brainwashing seems to be to late in the game they still are able to snap out of thier marxist trans
College students will always be idealistic. This is especially true when daddy is paying 40k for you to smoke dope at FU away from home. However, when they graduate and then need to find a real job, liberalism is not so cool. Then, when they finally get a job and they get that first paycheck with all those alphabet deductions, suddenly reality hits home. Then many start turning conservative.
Polls only indicate what a particular person is feeling or thinking on the day they were polled. People doing the polling can interpret answers. People being polled can be tricked into answering a particular way depending on the question or the person doing the questioning.
Only thing that really matters is the end result in November. That will tell us which way the country is moving. My hopes aren’t high.
Obama has lost his mojo
he is lacks gravitas and is not cool
I witnessed something here in New Hampshire this week that is fairly rare in MY area. I was in the local grocery chain after work one night. There was a young family with two kids all speaking Spanish. I made the mistake of getting behind them in the checkout line. The husband first pulled out his EBT card and paid for part of their groceries. His wife then pulled out these four white checks and paid for the rest. I think they were dependant children checks. It took forever to complete their transactions. We only have about 5% Hispanics here in Nh. So, this is not a common occurrence around here. However, it really made me and the other guy behind me mad because we knew we were paying for their purchases.
Incidents like that can turn a liberal into a conservative.
Were they WIC coupons for juice, cheese, etc.? I hate it when I get behind WIC people because it takes forever. I am so bad that I check people’s carts when they are in line. They usually have all that stuff separate from the rest of their stuff.
These mushy headed stooges have already created enough damage.
The irony is that they had a big hand in destroying their own futures.
For the rest of their sorry lives they will suffer for their idiotic infatuation with Obama and ultra-leftism.
Well said.
Now shut up and get back to work to pay for these poor struggling, dad-eyed people, who are doing the jobs that Americans won't do. It is an act of love and you are a racist. /s
Takes one to know one.
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