Posted on 08/15/2008 7:03:27 AM PDT by Publius804
GENERATION OBAMA
FIRST-TIME VOTERS ARE GLOBAL, DIVERSE, COLORBLIND - AND LOVE BARACK
By JOHN ZOGBY
Are the kids all right? Not if you listen to some of our leading social commentators. To hear people like Juliet Schor and William Bennett tell it, today's youth have been virtually brainwashed by marketers, advertisers, and a mushy-headed professoriate. But if your measure of "all right" is a group that is not just tolerant of but welcomes diversity, if it is young adults who march in lockstep with no political ideology, who in the majority are willing to think through the subtleties of some of the hottest hot-button issues of the time, if the measure is 18-to-29 years olds who take their cues globally, not just locally, then, yes, the kids are doing just fine.
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I spend a good deal of time at a nearby college, talk to a lot of people age 18-30.
Sadly, I would say around 9 out of 10 are too stupid for voting, and therefore shouldn’t be voting.
Very nice to read your post. Renews my hope in your generation.
College.
Yes Zogby is a DEMOCRATIC pollster. Plus the media is not a liberal monopoly anymore so all these PRELIMINARY polls mean is the battle for liberty is going to continue into the next generation.
“But one thing they all have in common is that they are uncommonly stupid. They are able to say they want Obama but they are incapable of giving a meaningful reason for it.”
Probably about as much thought goes into a college student’s decision to vote for Obama as went into the decision to participate in a pantie raid during the late ‘50s and early ‘60s. Some guy yells “pantie raid” in the dorm and the rooms start emptying out. Or someone yells: “let’s vote for the black guy”, and off they go.
They are NOT colorblind. Almost all the black people voting for him are voting for him because he’s black. Probably half the white people voting for him are doing so because of some perverse white guilt feeling or deluding themselves into thinking they are doing so bec they are “more sophisticated” by doing so.
What a joke. Get real, Zogby.
Newsrooms and Northeastern College Campuses.
Plus ça change,....
I am happy for you and your sons. I am 2 out of 3 with mine. I think that we need to go back to the founding fathers, at least with respect to age. Life expectancy during that peiod was under 50; so, at 21, you could not vote until you had experienced about 40% of life.
Fine. As long as they don’t vote!
My oldest son (23) attended UWM - Milwaukee
He is out of school and in the banking industry
My younger son (22) attended some college but decided on technical school instead. He has a full time job and makes a decent income (40k range)
They have friends in college, technical school and working who are not voting for Obama
Maybe it’s because my sons and most of their friends have worked to go to school
Paying taxes, rent, school etc has a big affect on how the world is viewed
Exactly. Technical school students, in particular, tend to have brains! They are studying to live in the real world, after all.
Your sons were raised sensibly by conservatives, so they are capable of intelligent thought and they pick their friends carefully.
But most colleges -- and I live in red-state rural PA -- are toxic with liberalism. As such they don't dare teach students to think.
It's the media polling biases: if they ask a young person a question and the first response is.....
"wellll....unhhhh....like.....>>>
....the pollster gets impatient and puts him down as for Obama.
My daughter - 23, will be voting for McCain. Many of her friends are conservative. Others are liberal, but not involved enough to even show up to vote.
Others are completely apolitical and I doubt if they even know who is running.
I don’t think they can count on this generation to put Barry into the Oval Office.
You have a generation that has received a steady, 24/7 diet of PC and multiculturalism, and Mohammad Obama makes them feel cool. That’s what politics are all about these days. Let this newer, dumber generation have him for four years, if they don’t figure out their mistake in four years, like we did with Carter, they deserve their brave, new, totally screwed world.
Please explain to me your generation's fascination with PBR when there are so many better beers on the market. I'm really curious.
This is really kind of fun for a baby boomer. The Gen X/Y-ers have a great time castigating Baby Boomers for all the ills of the world (most are willing to concede that, in the case of Baby Boomers, the world would be better off had we all been aborted - but, overall, they oppose abortion! LOL!!) yet, they proudly claim that they gave us 8 years of Bubba Clinton and now they want to foist someone with fewer qualifications than Jimmuh Cahter on the world to be president of the US.
I’m going to need a LOT more popcorn!!
No way. I've met too many fine young people who have a strong faith, believe in hard work, conservative economics etc. I'd even go one farther in saying this new generation has a one-up on those that have gone before, as long as they don't let recent prosperity, technology, and the like obscure what's really important. Their advantage is that they have truly grown up color-blind, and have seen that the world is only divided up by good and bad.
Outside of TV, I very rarely see a mixed group of black and white young people together.
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