Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Millennials (and Young Hispanics) bolt Obama for GOP in Midterms
National Journal ^ | October 29, 2014 | Ron Fournier

Posted on 10/30/2014 4:19:30 AM PDT by Din Maker

In a stunning turnaround, likely voters in the so-called millennial generation prefer a Republican-led Congress after next week's elections, and young Hispanics are turning sharply against President Obama.

A new national poll of 18-to-29-year-olds by Harvard's Institute of Politics shows that young Americans are leaving the new Democratic coalition that twice elected Obama. The news is little better for the GOP: These voters, who more than any other voting bloc represent the future of the American electorate, generally hold Republicans in the lowest regard.

The long-view IOP findings suggest that neither party is poised to win the largest generation in U.S. history—a pragmatic, demanding, relatively nonideological electorate raised in an age of terrorism, war, and government dysfunction.

"Millennials could be a critical swing vote," said IOP Director Maggie Williams, projecting the latest results on future elections. "Candidates for office: Ignore millennial voters at your peril." Williams is a Democrat and a former adviser to Hillary Clinton.

In the short term, the news is worse for Democrats than Republicans.

Millennials who told the IOP they will "definitely be voting" Tuesday favored Republicans over Democrats, 51 percent to 47 percent. That is a reversal of September 2010 results, when the IOP found Democrats favored over Republicans among young likely voters, 55 percent to 43 percent.

Obama's job-approval rating among millennials decreased from 47 percent in April to 43 percent, his second-lowest rating in the IOP surveys. Among young Americans most likely to vote, his job-approval rating is just 42 percent.

Obama's job approval is below 40 percent on several issues, including the economy, health care, the federal budget deficit, and foreign policy. Nearly six of 10 young Americans disapprove of Obamacare. Among the one in four millennial voters who say they definitely will vote Tuesday, Republican-leaning constituencies are significantly more enthusiastic about the election than Democrats.

Just 49 percent of young Hispanics approve of Obama's job performance, the lowest since IOP began tracking in 2009. That's a big drop from six months ago, when his rating among young Hispanics was 60 percent, and five years ago, when 81 percent of Hispanic millennials approved of Obama's performance. Only 17 percent of Hispanic youth plan to vote Tuesday, far smaller than the non-Hispanic percentages and likely a reflection of frustration over stalled immigration reform.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: latino; millennials
Young Latinos are also bolting Obama and the DemocRATS and are going to the GOP. But, I thought we had to do the "Amnesty thing" to get the Latino vote.
1 posted on 10/30/2014 4:19:30 AM PDT by Din Maker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Din Maker
Just 49 percent of young Hispanics approve of Obama's job performance, the lowest since 2009. That's a big drop from six months ago, when his rating among young Hispanics was 60 percent, and five years ago 81 percent

Like a rock....................
2 posted on 10/30/2014 4:22:16 AM PDT by Din Maker (I've always been crazy, but, that's the only thing that's kept me from going insane.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Din Maker

The political elites are all the same now.


3 posted on 10/30/2014 4:22:58 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Din Maker

Leave it to Ron Fournier to try and make it bad news for the Republicans......even in his own column about how bad it is for Democrats and Obama.

He just can’t help himself, even when he’s onto something.


4 posted on 10/30/2014 4:24:14 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Din Maker

That which cannot go on forever won’t. Things change. The reason liberals hate the Internet and talk radio is because the truth gets out. Without gatekeepers and monopoly control liberalism withers.


5 posted on 10/30/2014 4:28:50 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Din Maker

I have two millennials, which both were raised and are conservatives. It is delightful to hear them talk of the conversations they have with their low information friends, and how little it takes to get their friends interested in what is going on now, and convince them of the conservative point of view. I don’t think most of them care enough to vote yet; they are lazy. But the seed is planted.


6 posted on 10/30/2014 4:32:29 AM PDT by kevslisababy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Din Maker

Perhaps the fall-off in support of Obala among the Millenials is similar to the end of the crack epidemic in the nineties...the younger siblings of crack users saw with their own eyes what was happening to the crack users and rejected it. Older brothers and sisters, as well as parents, without jobs will do that.


7 posted on 10/30/2014 4:47:53 AM PDT by dogcaller
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Din Maker

I sure hope so.


8 posted on 10/30/2014 5:04:58 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Din Maker

I’ll wait until 11/5 to believe it.


9 posted on 10/30/2014 5:31:36 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Din Maker
Young Latinos are also bolting Obama and the DemocRATS and are going to the GOP.

Quickest way to get the border closed.

10 posted on 10/30/2014 5:43:02 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Din Maker

Good thing Fournier was able to write that on a computer and not a typewriter. Otherwise his tears would have smudged the ink.


11 posted on 10/30/2014 5:54:33 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kevslisababy

I raised my 3 kids the same way; to believe in Conservatism. My oldest son even named his daughter Reagan.


12 posted on 10/30/2014 6:00:23 AM PDT by Din Maker (I've always been crazy, but, that's the only thing that's kept me from going insane.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Din Maker

Millenials might be, but Hispanics? I doubt it. This is posturing for the elections.


13 posted on 10/30/2014 6:03:41 AM PDT by dforest
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Din Maker

Democrats aren’t worried, though. They still have their old reliables — dead people and felons.


14 posted on 10/30/2014 3:43:13 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson