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Young Voters Dramatically Shift Away From Obama and Dems
The Lid/Pew Research ^ | The Lid

Posted on 02/19/2010 12:12:56 PM PST by Shellybenoit

In a move that the White House would probably call both "unexpected" and "unprecedented," (because they call just about everything either unexpected or unprecedented), the latest Pew research study indicates that President Obama's Democratic Party may be losing its stranglehold on young voters of the millennial generation (aged 18-34)

Millennials were huge in helping the democrats build their majority in 2006 and 2008 elections. The held over a two to one advantage advantage over the GOP just two years ago (62% to 30%), but by the end of the year the 32 point margin shrunk to 14 points(54% to 40%) .

The unusual part of this trend, is that this group of young voters still strongly identify themselves with the liberal agenda greater support for government in general, and somewhat lower levels of support for an assertive national security policy compared with other generations.

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TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: buyersremorse; collegekids; democrats; futureofdebtandtaxes; obama; obamavoter; youngvoters

1 posted on 02/19/2010 12:12:57 PM PST by Shellybenoit
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To: Shellybenoit

bttt


2 posted on 02/19/2010 12:13:08 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (happily replying to threads without reading the articles since 2002)
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To: Shellybenoit
Fool me once shame on you...fool me twice shame on me. Maybe the youth are learning.
3 posted on 02/19/2010 12:13:55 PM PST by highlander_UW (Obama has lost or not saved over 4 million jobs!)
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To: highlander_UW

The younger voters who are graduating from college are learning that there are no jobs available to them.


4 posted on 02/19/2010 12:16:09 PM PST by TennTuxedo
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To: Shellybenoit

5 posted on 02/19/2010 12:18:17 PM PST by GloriaJane (Pro-Choice = Pro-Death........ Pro-Life = Pro-LIFE!)
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To: TennTuxedo

The younger non-degreed voters will attend the School of Hard Knocks (and worship at Boortz’ Church of the Painful Truth).


6 posted on 02/19/2010 12:23:16 PM PST by dogcaller
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To: Shellybenoit
There's nothing like graduating with an $80,000 debt in student loans and no real job prospects to focus a young mind.

I'm always grateful that Jimmy Carter taught me that lesson while I was still in college with a whole lot less in debt.

7 posted on 02/19/2010 12:26:40 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Shellybenoit

The Yoots are awakening!


8 posted on 02/19/2010 12:32:13 PM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Shellybenoit; InvisibleChurch; highlander_UW; TennTuxedo; GloriaJane; dogcaller; Vigilanteman

It says “millenials” still tend dem although their numbers have dropped precipitously.

The most important factor that is not being discussed here is the likely fact that the Obama Youth Army is far more likely to simply not show up on election day rather than vote for or against democrats.


9 posted on 02/19/2010 12:33:13 PM PST by sinanju
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To: Shellybenoit

It is the young people who lost their jobs first and who can’t find new ones or first ones.


10 posted on 02/19/2010 12:39:57 PM PST by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: Shellybenoit

This isn’t surprising...
It is they who are seeing their futures destroyed by Obama, and Democrat Policies.


11 posted on 02/19/2010 12:49:17 PM PST by tcrlaf (Obama White House=Tammany Hall on the National Mall)
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They will be the first generation to have a lower standard of
living than their parents. They are experiencing generational expectation reset:(


12 posted on 02/19/2010 12:57:20 PM PST by updatedscreenname
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To: Shellybenoit

Do 54% of Millennials really like the fact that they are being spent into bankruptcy?


13 posted on 02/19/2010 12:59:55 PM PST by stevem
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To: Shellybenoit

This article is crappola.
My kid is a senior at college. His professors are mostly socialists and they push the marxist socialist, no one is better than anyone else, capitalism is bad, dogma and the young heads of mush eat it up.
Very few understand that they will Never pay this ass clowns bill he’s laying on them.

Blacks, Jews, fags, and the young will continue supporting and voting for this “magic Nigro”.


14 posted on 02/19/2010 1:02:16 PM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Obammy is little more than a quota boy.)
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To: Joe Boucher

You think all of us don’t see this crap?

Look, rejoice that we’ve halved the gap from 30 points to 15. Have to work to flip this over.


15 posted on 02/19/2010 1:14:59 PM PST by BenKenobi (Any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind ;)
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To: TennTuxedo

Most of my peers wasted their time in college learning nothing when they should develop a skill that’ll get them a job!


16 posted on 02/19/2010 1:18:05 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Shellybenoit

Dude, I didn’t think Obamacare meant I was gonna havta pay a lot of money out of MY pocket or go to jail.

That’s bogus.


17 posted on 02/19/2010 1:48:36 PM PST by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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