I have two college-aged sons, both of whom are registered Libertarian, and wrote in for Ron Paul (no, I’m not in a battleground state)
I am also a poll worker, and noticed that the vast majority of young male voters that came to vote yesterday were unaffiliated.
It seems that the Republican Party could do something over the next 4-8 years to capture these independent (in the literal sense) and individualistic voters. If my sons are any example, they are well to the right of the Republicans on fiscal issues. They also hate political correctness, and their college profs drive them crazy. Think “South Park Republican”. There ARE young people who did not drink the Obama Kool-aid. They just didn’t like McCain either.
Young people are the most “marketed to” generation ever created. They are bombarded with ads 24/7. Hence, they have excellent facilities for filtering out the noise.
If the Republican strategists want to reach them, they had better have a different approach than “values voters,” common sense and an old guy who only talks about the past — his past, his opponent’s past, and out country’s past.
“It seems that the Republican Party could do something over the next 4-8 years to capture these independent (in the literal sense) and individualistic voters. If my sons are any example, they are well to the right of the Republicans on fiscal issues.”
That’s ok, the Republican base is to the right of the Republican party on fiscal issues. ;-)
“They also hate political correctness, and their college profs drive them crazy. Think “South Park Republican”. There ARE young people who did not drink the Obama Kool-aid. They just didn’t like McCain either.”
Some of us who lived through Carter did NOT want to go through a repeat. If 4 years of Obama is what it takes to get these guys voting Republican for a generation, so be it.
But we will need to STOP OBAMA’S SOCIALISM.