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Millennials less enthusiastic about Obama this election
Columbus Dispatch ^ | October 20, 2012 | Randy Ludlow

Posted on 10/20/2012 2:57:03 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: Gamecock
I have 2 daughters in this demographic. One in SC and one in Tx. Both are voting Romney.

Kudos to you and your wife for raising your daughters so well. Being far from home, and immersed in the liberal university culture, and their good grounding in common sense is still holding. Outstanding.

21 posted on 10/20/2012 4:55:57 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: bella1

Wow. That yahoo poll with 300,000 responses has it 53 r 47 d, pretty accurate if ask me.


22 posted on 10/20/2012 5:16:03 PM PDT by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters of Freedom, Committee of Correspondence)
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To: LS
3) VERY IMPORTANT: have you noticed that ZEro can only give speeches on college campuses anymore? He can't do public speeches because he'll get heckled---and he absolutely can't stand that---and his crowd sizes are down so dramatically everyone will notice. So he stays on safe campuses where he can still draw a crowd (Poly Sci profs all let out their classes to go to his rallies!)

That's an interesting take away!

23 posted on 10/20/2012 5:20:24 PM PDT by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: LS
3) VERY IMPORTANT: have you noticed that ZEro can only give speeches on college campuses anymore? He can't do public speeches because he'll get heckled---and he absolutely can't stand that---and his crowd sizes are down so dramatically everyone will notice. So he stays on safe campuses where he can still draw a crowd (Poly Sci profs all let out their classes to go to his rallies!)

You're absolutely right, LS; but I think that in some respects, it's even worse than that for Obaama.

Have you noticed that almost every time Teh One holds a rally, it is concurrent with a concert by one pop star or rocker or another?

Source: obviously you can't trust Faux News or anything owned by the Koch brothers, right?

Cheers!

24 posted on 10/20/2012 6:09:30 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: neverdem

Wouldn’t “millennials” be 12 years old now?


25 posted on 10/20/2012 6:13:03 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: neverdem

Reality sucks, son.


26 posted on 10/20/2012 6:21:35 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Holding my nose one more time to get rid of Eric Holder)
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To: ari-freedom
“How does Romney have the right to tell me what I can and can’t do with my body?” asked Tabitha Johnsen,

Perhaps she's studying Eskimo women in mythology for her major? and perhaps the "right" to "do things with her body" is her job prospect?

Obama will give her that opportunity -- maybe a life as a third runger in the Saudi sheik's harem?

27 posted on 10/20/2012 11:04:56 PM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Bettijo; redgolum; BenKenobi; Gamecock
I cannot imagine why any 18 to 35 year olds would vote for Obama.

red, ben and I are at the end of that demographic range and none of us could contemplate voting for a person with 0 experience 4 years ago. Obama still has got no experience except in ruining things.

I can sympathise with morons (sorry, that's the only nice word I can call them) who were charmed 4 years ago and only saw a black (?) guy who said "change" "hope" and then voted for him

but only a clinically brain-dead person would not see what Obama has wreaked.

Perhaps we are so caught up these days in singing and clapping and enthusiasm instead of the core message.

And yes, the young are disproportionately impressed by the show, and have been forever impressed this way, but this is now exacerbated by bad parenting and society. Gamecock has done well to raise children who can resist this -- it is up to other parents to do the same.

28 posted on 10/20/2012 11:16:16 PM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Revolting cat!

>>>Wouldn’t “millennials” be 12 years old now?>>>

Exactly! Who dreams up these phrases?


29 posted on 10/21/2012 5:17:49 AM PDT by kitkat
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To: neverdem

“How does Romney have the right to tell me what I can and can’t do with my body?” asked Tabitha Johnsen

But she supports Obamacare which allows the government to decided everything about her medical care. I seriously want to throttle idiots like this. So blind....


30 posted on 10/21/2012 6:32:49 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (The Left blaming Jim Lehrer for the debate is like blaming Liencoln's assassination on the play.i of)
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To: kitkat; Revolting cat!

I believe the “milllenials” are anyone who turned 17 and/or graduated high school after the year 2000, not those born after 2000.


31 posted on 10/21/2012 6:40:55 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (The Left blaming Jim Lehrer for the debate is like blaming Liencoln's assassination on the play.i of)
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To: Cronos

“How does Romney have the right to tell me what I can and can’t do with my body?” asked Tabitha Johnsen,
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How can Obama or his wife have the right to tell you what to eat, how much you will be allowed to keep of any earnings, whether there will be any business allowed to exist that would hire you, how warm or cool you can be, whether or not you can afford electricity or how much you can drive or in what?

Romney is only telling you that you pay for your own choices, not what the choices will be. You have no right to mandate slavery of someone else to support your choices.

Under Romney, your state will decide its own laws and you can participate or not and if it isn’t to your liking, you can move.

I hope her vote is overwhelmed by her smarter peers.


32 posted on 10/21/2012 8:18:42 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: neverdem
Paul Filippelli, 22, an Ohio State senior from Pickerington, said: “Obama stands for a lot of issues important to students — education funding and making college affordable for all students. Romney only stands for making sure the wealthy get their tax cuts.”

Ok, Paul. Your a senior and presumably graduate in May. Shouldn't your biggest concern be getting FT work in the field you studied in? At this pont you better be happy flipping burgers, stocking shelves, etc.

33 posted on 10/21/2012 2:36:13 PM PDT by matt04
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To: Revolting cat!

Most sources consider the Millennial Generation to include people born in 1982 or after—that is to say, anyone who was still a child on Jan. 1, 2000. They are also referred to as Generation Y (i.e. the generation that followed after Generation X, which in turn followed after the Baby Boomers). There’s an even newer generation now that are still kids. They are often referred to as Generation Z or the Internet Generation.

These newer names may not be perfect, but at least they are less subjective than “The Lost Generation” and “The Greatest Generation” (WWI & WWII respectively).


34 posted on 10/21/2012 5:29:25 PM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: FenwickBabbitt

In the end, X, Y, Z, names make more sense than the arbitrary definition of the “Millennials”


35 posted on 10/21/2012 5:46:00 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: neverdem

They’re four years older.


36 posted on 10/21/2012 10:36:07 PM PDT by redpoll
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To: Scoutmaster
Cameron must be majoring in understatements.

He missed a golden opportunity to say "not optimal".

37 posted on 10/22/2012 4:23:16 PM PDT by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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