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New Poll Finds That Young Americans Are Leaning Left {New York Times front page......)
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Posted on 06/27/2007 2:20:34 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
I am sure the New York Fish wrap is having the big O over this story...Pathetic.
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posted on
06/27/2007 2:40:51 AM PDT
by
AlexW
(Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia. Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
To: Sub-Driver
I think Winston Churchill said it:
"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.
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posted on
06/27/2007 2:51:07 AM PDT
by
Wonder Warthog
(The Hog of Steel-NRA)
To: Sub-Driver
The poll also found that they are more likely to say the war in Iraq is heading to a successful conclusion.
I had to read that three times before it registered. If the majority of them are voting Dem, I guess a total troop pullout would be construed as a "successful conclusion" by these dopes. It's a bogus question; too much interpretation required.
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posted on
06/27/2007 2:55:53 AM PDT
by
Thrownatbirth
(.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
To: Sub-Driver
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.
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posted on
06/27/2007 2:56:34 AM PDT
by
MinorityRepublican
(Everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL)
To: Sub-Driver
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. 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.
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posted on
06/27/2007 3:13:59 AM PDT
by
olezip
To: Sub-Driver
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.
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
06/27/2007 3:36:44 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(THOMPSON NEEDS TO CLARIFY HIS POSITION ON THE SPP BEFORE I SUPPORT HIM.)
To: Wonder Warthog
I was a Libertarian at 16. Wonder what that means?
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posted on
06/27/2007 3:41:03 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(THOMPSON NEEDS TO CLARIFY HIS POSITION ON THE SPP BEFORE I SUPPORT HIM.)
To: Sub-Driver
Does the article state what percentage of their sample are closer to 17 than to 29? If you break down the results to ages 17-22 vs. 23-29 do the results differ (yes, I know this may not be statistically kosher to do if the survey wasn’t designed to test this, but it would be interesting anyway)? People tend to be more conservative when they become more responsible. On another note, asking someone of an age at which they aren’t likely to require high-level health care whether they think ‘free’ health care is a good idea is likely to elicit the response that was given.
To: Sub-Driver
The Left is always well represented by the immature.
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posted on
06/27/2007 3:44:45 AM PDT
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: Sub-Driver
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
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posted on
06/27/2007 3:44:45 AM PDT
by
rogernz
To: Sub-Driver
Young, dumb, and full of.....
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posted on
06/27/2007 3:45:52 AM PDT
by
Niteranger68
(Amnesty….NO MEANS NO!)
To: Sub-Driver
Surprise, surprise. The far left conducts a poll and finds that young people are leaning left. Don’t they wish!
To: Wonder Warthog
Liberals in Churchill's day were not the same as liberals today. Even the leading early 20th century British socialist Ramsay MacDonald didn't think government aid should be extended to slackers. Today such talk would label MacDonald as a heartless reactionary.
To: Sub-Driver
It’s no surprise that kids are leaning left. They are indoctrinated by the fifth columnists in our universities.
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posted on
06/27/2007 4:10:37 AM PDT
by
Stars&StripesNE
(Liberals are the enemy within)
To: olezip
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?
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posted on
06/27/2007 4:15:20 AM PDT
by
Soul of the South
(When times are tough the tough get going.)
To: Sub-Driver
The utes are leaning left and also believe that they’ll be worse off than their parents. That’s called a self-fulling prophesy.
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posted on
06/27/2007 4:15:58 AM PDT
by
Sapper26
(Quondo Omni Flunkus Moritati)
To: Jen's Mom
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.
To: Sub-Driver
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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posted on
06/27/2007 4:18:08 AM PDT
by
RoadTest
(The arrogance of academia is even greater than its ignorance.)
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