Posted on 06/27/2007 2:20:34 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
New Poll Finds That Young Americans Are Leaning Left By ADAM NAGOURNEY and MEGAN THEE
Young Americans are more likely than the general public to favor a government-run universal health care insurance system, an open-door policy on immigration and the legalization of gay marriage, according to a New York Times/CBS News/MTV poll. The poll also found that they are more likely to say the war in Iraq is heading to a successful conclusion.
The poll offers a snapshot of a group whose energy and idealism have always been as alluring to politicians as its scattered focus and shifting interests have been frustrating. It found that substantially more Americans ages 17 to 29 than four years ago are paying attention to the presidential race. But they appeared to be really familiar with only two of the candidates, Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, both Democrats.
They have continued a long-term drift away from the Republican Party. And although they are just as worried as the general population about the outlook for the country and think their generation is likely to be worse off than that of their parents, they retain a belief that their votes can make a difference, the poll found.
More than half of Americans ages 17 to 29 — 54 percent — say they intend to vote for a Democrat for president in 2008. They share with the public at large a negative view of President Bush, who has a 28 percent approval rating with this group, and of the Republican Party. They hold a markedly more positive view of Democrats than they do of Republicans.
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"If you're not liberal at age twenty, you have no heart. If you're not conservative at age forty, you have no brain."
I was a conservative at age twelve.
The main story behind the big story is that Young Americans are more positive about Iraq than the American Population in general. Perhaps it’s because we are out in the frontlines ourselves fighting terrorists.
This is either wishful thinking or evidence that the dumbing down of our youth by the leftist revolutionaries has been successful, and we are doomed. The USA has now had 50 years of Marxist indoctrination to destroy the family, the church, taken over the school systems, all with the help of a large, bloated bureaucracy bent on making the USA fair for all.
this article is stalinist propoganda at its finest. i wonder if they faxed it to mrs. clinton’s office for approval before it was published.
I was a Libertarian at 16. Wonder what that means?
libs are still the majority amongst the youth, but when my parents were growing up in the 60’s everyone was liberal it seems. any conservative who were around were pretty silent, but today young conservatives are more proactive. but anyway, this is some lib propaganda
Young, dumb, and full of.....
Surprise, surprise. The far left conducts a poll and finds that young people are leaning left. Don’t they wish!
It’s no surprise that kids are leaning left. They are indoctrinated by the fifth columnists in our universities.
Many young people face a more difficult life than the boomer generation. Zero job security, government policies that encourage businesses to move jobs offshore, waves of illegals pouring across the border to hold wages down, and high taxes that make accumulating savings difficult. Add to that the other fruits of “free trade”, the end of the private pension system and the shift of more health care costs onto the employer it is not surprising many younger people are looking for the government to take over health care. Already they see the government providing free health care for seniors, illegal immigrants, and the permanent welfare underclass.
A twenty-something dual income couple trying to accumulate money to start a family and buy a home is facing a combined state/local/federal/social security/medicare marginal tax rate of 40%. With government’s claim on your paycheck so high, and more taxes coming with President Hillary, why wouldn’t you be looking for the government to provide you with some benefits?
Health care is a winning issue for the democrats. The reality is that Republican policies of the last 10 years are leading to the destruction of the middle class. People act in their own self interest and younger people are no different. With over 50% of the population feeding at the public trough, why shouldn’t the people bearing the tax burden get something?
The utes are leaning left and also believe that they’ll be worse off than their parents. That’s called a self-fulling prophesy.
And not only by the universities, they are being lead left by the public school systems, the mass media and popular culture in general. They are being fed a new conventional thinking that has little real connections to traditional American values and history.
We have a knee-jerk reflex to believe a poll. It’s the fourth form of lie, after lies, damned lies and statistics.
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