Posted on 09/02/2010 8:34:56 PM PDT by reaganaut1
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — The college vote is up for grabs this year — to an extent that would have seemed unlikely two years ago, when a generation of young people seemed to swoon over Barack Obama.
Though many students are liberals on social issues, the economic reality of a weak job market has taken a toll on their loyalties: far fewer 18- to 29-year-olds now identify themselves as Democrats compared with 2008.
“Is the recession, which is hitting young people very hard, doing lasting or permanent damage to what looked like a good Democratic advantage with this age group?” asked Scott Keeter, the director of survey research at the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan group. “The jury is still out.”
How and whether millions of college students vote will help determine if Republicans win enough seats to retake the House or Senate, overturning the balance of power on Capitol Hill, and with it, Mr. Obama’s agenda. If students tune out and stay home it will also carry a profound message for American society about a generation that seemed so ready, so recently, to grab national politics by the lapels and shake.
All those questions are in play here in Larimer County, about an hour north of Denver, for the more than 25,000 students at Colorado State University.
Larimer, like much of Colorado, was once solidly Republican but went Democratic in the last few elections and is now contested by both sides. It is seen as a signal beacon for an increasingly unpredictable state.
Kristin Johnson, 23, like many other students interviewed here in recent days, said that a vote for Democrats in 2008, however passionate it was, did not a Democrat make. But she bristles just as much at the idea of being called a Republican.
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Being young, educated and unemployed probably isn’t “working” for them.
According to the article, the economic toll is so bad under Obama they’re considering voting Republican. I thought the reason they voted for Obama was because the economic toll was so bad under Bush?
What would the media coverage be like if the economy was like this under Bush?
I was wondering what was going to happen when lib democrats quit having kids.
Didn’t Bismarck say something about this?
(young and older voters)????
Professor Jimmy Carter taught my generation a powerful lesson, at least those of us who were smart enough to learn. This may be the only useful thing Obama will do for the current crop of college age kids willing to learn the same lesson.
And their student loans that have been nationalized is not helpful.
They are replaced by women married to the government having illegitimate kids.
You got that right.
Yes, that and importation of third worlders who are conditioned to believe that working Americans can support them too.
*snicker*
That shit didn't last long...
I understand a lot of kids on college campus are finding a new hero in Thomas Sowell.
I understand a lot of kids on college campus are finding a new hero in Thomas Sowell.
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I cannot imagine a worse thing for the leftist herd.
That is cheerful news.
Yes it is.
ROFL!!!!!!!!!
I would seriously consider cutting off a minor appendage if Sowell would run for POTUS!
Wow, I hope that’s true.
Didn’t Bismarck say something about this?
(young and older voters)????
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I think you have Winston Churchill in mind:
“If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”
He had some ‘splainin’ to do about his own earlier political views.
As for the “Iron Chancellor” of Prussia and the German Empire, I think he gave far more thought to railways, Krupp guns, Mauser rifles and conscription rolls than he did to voters.
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