Posted on 11/06/2012 2:05:48 PM PST by Smogger
“Sustained unemployment and having to move back with your parents can have that effect on you.”
The fact that there is no end in sight is why Obama should lose that demographic; he offers no more hope, and only change for the worse...
Why, on earth? I realize that according to the ignore white males strategy Obama has to win all his identity groups handily. But young people never matter. Their share of the electorate never grows significantly. They don’t care.
How could he have banked on young people coming out for Obama? They are the most fickle voters. They voted as a fad in 2008 but the fad is over now. If they really needed young voters, they are in trouble.
“Obama was more like a rock star.”
Obama: the ultimate one-hit-wonder.
Just tuned into MSNBC. Chuck Todd and Robert Gibbs look like they are at a funeral.
Paul, your party booed G-d.
Yeah, seniors...that's the ticket; because of their love for Obamacare.
Now this is anecdotal, I grant, but I've been shocked by the lack of hispanic participation in this election. It may just be that those who did vote, voted for Romney.
Begala. I will enjoy watching him suffer thru the returns.
I should addthat though it never grows, I suppose youngsters’ share of the total vote, or Obama’s share of the youngster vote, could shrink. Certainly they can’t be as excited for Obama as in 08. However, it was a myth that they mattered back then. Their share of the total was exactly the same as in 04, and they always split democrat anyway.
I’ve stopped making small talk with waiters and waitresses at Olive Garden, like:
“Do you go to Ball State?” “So what are you studying?” and “When do you graduate?”
It’s been too awkward as of late: “I did. Computer science. Two years ago.” The bloom is off the old hope-and-change rose.
Long line at the middle school, lots & lots of voters in America’s Home Town.
Hope they vote right this time.
I guess it didn’t occur to Begala and the rest of the Obama surrogates that no money, no job-not to mention 10 or so other people interviewing for the same jobs you do-and tens of thousands of dollars in student loans is enough to dampen the enthusiasm for his brand of hope and change...
Mr. Stroke-of-the-pen is about to get one shoved up his exit orifice.
When the history of this race is written, Obama’s tactical decision to eschew white middle and working class voters, and instead try to cobble together a coalition of minorities, feminists, union hacks, gubbermint employees and fickle young voters, will have future observers scratching their heads.
We are witnessing the nation go through Hopium withdrawal with the associated shivers, puking, diarrhea, and convulsions. The antidote is allowing the adults to take over and administer common sense elixir.
Maybe they grew up.
Please, oh please, oh please...
Gotta DVR this. My TV is too expensive to watch MSNBC directly. I get Tourtettes and may shoot out the screen. But later, God willing, I can just skip to the part where P*ssy Matthews head explodes, then I'll be OK.
Here’s some tangible proof to support Begala’s worries. Michael Barone was on Sean Hannity’s program about an hour ago; he reported that early voting in the Ohio county that includes Ohio University is down 60% from 2008. And here’s an even bigger shocker: early voting in the Wisconsin county that includes Madison (and the university) was no higher (in terms of votes) than three GOP counties in the Milwaukee suburbs with much smaller populations.
Looks like the “yuts” are staying home, or voting for someone else. I’ll defer to Wisconsin FReepers for their expertise, but if the Dims can’t rack up in Madison, it will make it much more difficult for them to carry the state.
What they don’t realize is that a lot of young people are voting 3rd party, as per my college aged daughter about a good number of her friends.
She says most people her age are fed up with the two party system and are concerned about where they’re going to be when they’re adults.
Of course, she’s seen her share of single issue, entitlement mentality peers, too.
Paul Begala's "concern" is only as it applies to the job opportunities that will vanish once the "concern" turns to angst,anxiety, disillusionment, despair.
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