[ArrogantBustard]

My take is that she's too close to their mother's age.

You're talking about college kids. By definition anyone qualified to be President is technically old enough to be their parents.

[LS]

Nope. They saw Obama as "their age," whether he was or not. The opposite, of course, is someone like Reagan who DESPITE his age comes off as energetic, youthful, without being doddering as McCain did. I think this was part of Thatcher's appeal---she was past the "mother" age and nearly "grandmother," so she was taken more seriously.

But here is the important point: go to ANY Tea Party meeting or any GOP rally and count the number of people under 35. It's one thing to say that (on average) the "youth" don't vote. But you better recognize that if they suddenly DECIDE to vote, they can and will swing an election, as they helped do in 2008.