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Report: How GOP lost young voters
Politico ^ | June 3, 2013 | KATIE GLUECK

Posted on 06/03/2013 1:00:02 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

A new postmortem on the November elections from the nation’s leading voice for college Republicans offers a searing indictment of the GOP “brand” and the major challenges the party faces in wooing young voters, according to a copy given exclusively to POLITICO on Sunday.

The College Republican National Committee on Monday made public a detailed report — the result of extensive polling and focus groups — dissecting what went wrong for Republicans with young voters in the 2012 elections and how the party can improve its showing with that key demographic in the future.

It’s not a pretty picture. In fact, it’s a “dismal present situation,” the report says.

The 95-page study, which looked at the party’s views on social and economic issues, as well as its messaging and outreach, echoes a March report on the election debacle issued by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, which presented a devastating assessment of the party’s current state of affairs.

But in some ways the new report from inside the GOP tent is even more scathing and ominous — since it comes from the party’s next generation.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: collegerepublicans; republican; youth; youthvote
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1 posted on 06/03/2013 1:00:02 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Let me guess: the GOP didn’t celebrate sodomy or want to endorse infanticide.


2 posted on 06/03/2013 1:01:12 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Not enough free goodies too.


3 posted on 06/03/2013 1:02:52 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (What has the GOP done today to gain your support in 2014?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

You can’t have the young vote unless you take back the educational system, and get a voice in the media as well.

Then conservatives say that’s impossible or they can’t be bothered. If they don’t want to run education in America, what can they expect to accomplish?


4 posted on 06/03/2013 1:03:02 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“Smart” phones and basements in the homes of their parents.


5 posted on 06/03/2013 1:03:05 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you think ObamaCare is a train wreck, wait until you see the amnesty bill.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

From the article:

In the report, the young Republican activists acknowledge their party has suffered significant damage in recent years. A sampling of the critique on:

Gay marriage: “On the ‘open-minded’ issue … [w]e will face serious difficulty so long as the issue of gay marriage remains on the table.”

Hispanics: “Latino voters … tend to think the GOP couldn’t care less about them.”

Perception of the party’s economic stance: “We’ve become the party that will pat you on your back when you make it, but won’t offer you a hand to help you get there.”

Big reason for the image problem: The “outrageous statements made by errant Republican voices.”

Words that up-for-grabs voters associate with the GOP: “The responses were brutal: closed-minded, racist, rigid, old-fashioned.”

So, in a word, yes. You’re right.


6 posted on 06/03/2013 1:03:40 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Blather. Reince. Repeat.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Politico.....what do you expect....


7 posted on 06/03/2013 1:03:50 PM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
The 95-page study, which looked at the party’s views on social and economic issues, as well as its messaging and outreach

A marketing campaign is a mostly vain attempt to counteract 12-16 years of programming by leftists in schools and a lifetime of programming by leftists in media.

'Social and economic' issues is the usual code (which the GOP maddeningly adopts as its own) for tearing down any institution or tradition that doesn't comport with militant gay and/or socialist thought. Again, this loops back to programming.

Evicting leftists from the controls of the dam has a much greater prospect of success than attempting to hold back a flood of ignorance, paranoia and PC nonsense.

8 posted on 06/03/2013 1:05:30 PM PDT by relictele (A place dedicated to economic, racial and social equality. It was called Jonestown.)
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To: Williams
If they don’t want to run education in America, what can they expect to accomplish?

I'm afraid that the people who wish for smaller government are a lot like Groucho Marx.

They don't want to join a party that would have them as a member.

9 posted on 06/03/2013 1:06:33 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
If your chief political point of reference is George W. Bush and you don't like him and you blame him for everything, you'll probably vote for Democrats.

Now we have a generation whose chief point of political reference is Barack H. Obama, when that generation starts blaming him for things, they'll at least be more open to the idea of voting for Republicans.

10 posted on 06/03/2013 1:06:56 PM PDT by x
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To: SoFloFreeper
Let me guess: the GOP didn’t celebrate sodomy or want to endorse infanticide.

Yes. We must become more like the Gaystapo and Feminazis so people will like us.

11 posted on 06/03/2013 1:07:01 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Ron Paul is able to reach the hearts and mind of the youth with a message of limited government and economic freedom.
12 posted on 06/03/2013 1:08:51 PM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I don’t know who said this, but it seems to have garnered an “AMEN” from lots of people:

“If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain.”


13 posted on 06/03/2013 1:08:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

My tagline says it all. We let the left defne us in 2012. It worked. As one poster said, with young voters, we can’t expect a marketing campaign to counter 12 years of indoctrination. We have to be out there speaking to younger voters all the time. This means going on TV shows they watch, speaking on campuses and running ads throughout the year.

Paul Ryan wanted to go out on the tour of campuses and help convert some of these people. The campaign did not permit it.


14 posted on 06/03/2013 1:09:29 PM PDT by ilgipper (The lesson for the GOP is simple - don't let the opposition define you)
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To: ilgipper

The article should be titled. HOW FRAUD AND IGNORANCE CAUSED THE GOP TO LOSE THE ELECTION BUT WIN THE WAR.


15 posted on 06/03/2013 1:11:25 PM PDT by spawn44 (MOO)
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To: relictele

Thanks to the Left owning public education, the “young vote” won’t come back until they get out of school and encounter the real world. When they see the chunk of their paycheck that the Feds are taking, there is a fair chance they’ll come back.


16 posted on 06/03/2013 1:11:29 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it gettingthe so hot?)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

There is not an ounce of leadership in the republican party. Their whole attitude is apologetic.

They are lied about and so they think they’d better agree with the liars.

No one has the courage to say, “what the hell ‘helping hand’ is the government supposed to give you so you can be successful, when you need a job making money in the private sector”?

No courage to say gay marriage (which many young people think is the biggest issue facing society) is a ridiculous waste of time issue when we have life and death problems.

No courage to say “No, we care about you as AMERICANS not as “hispanic Americans” And yeah, illegal immigration is a bad thing.

There are solid majorities against things like illegal immigration IF republicans cared.


17 posted on 06/03/2013 1:21:37 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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To: Little Ray

I doubt it. I just left a hi-tech job that was chocked full of 25-30 mush heads that made too much for their skill and experience level but sat around boasting of their altruistic qualities. I swear I have never seen more nappy, watch cap wearing, vitmain water drinking, doofuses in one place.

Within 3 months of being hired for that job I could not stand another minute of the younger generation. I got another job as fast as I could. This marks the first time that I left a job because I could not stand the majority of people I worked with instead of money or better career position.


18 posted on 06/03/2013 1:21:38 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: ilgipper

Murdoch and Akin didn’t help either. For young woman who rely on social media for their info. We stood for one thing....if you get raped we’ll make you have the baby.


19 posted on 06/03/2013 1:24:01 PM PDT by Blackirish (Forward Comrades!!!!!!!!!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Young people of both parties have spent their lives being indoctrinated in our government brainwashing centers, aka, the public school system. There’s no fixing that.


20 posted on 06/03/2013 1:24:29 PM PDT by LouAvul (In a state of disbelief as to how liberals destroyed America in a mere 40 years.)
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