Posted on 10/15/2004 7:31:25 PM PDT by Jim Hill
President George Bush won by almost 400 votes when University of Tennessee students took to the online polls Oct. 7 and 8 in the Student Government Association-sponsored mock elections.
The Bush/Cheney ticket received 1,015 votes to the Kerry/Edwards ticket receiving 643 votes. Students had the opportunity to vote for all candidates that will appear on the Tennessee ballot in the November elections.
A total of 1,721 students - 6.6 percent of the student body - voted in the election. SGA had hoped that 8,000 students would cast votes, Kristi Bogle, SGA government affairs assistant director, said last week.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailybeacon.utk.edu ...
My kid's college classmates don't like Bush. Last semester they were all pro-Kerry. This semester, they dislike Kerry more than Bush. They probably won't vote, but the fact that now that they've seen more of Kerry and he has turned them off, is rather comforting, IMHO.
SO only 21.5% give a damn about the election?
Did they do this in the past Bush/Gore election?
Apparantly liberal indoctrination isn't taking as well as it should.
Less, actually. UT-Knoxville's enrollment is a bit over 27,000 students.
No mention of a 2000 mock election in the article nor among the archives of The Daily Beacon (UT's daily rag).
I'm sure the campus radical lunatics are thrilled.
:) sarcasm
My son says that most of the students he is running into are conservative. I think the college students have more sense then the overaged hippies from my generation.
I don't think college students are going to be mobilized to do anything. At least until they are 26 or so. From my own experience, I did exactly the opposite of what I was told to do. And old farts like Springsteen are not doing anything except to provide a place to get stoned for a while. Then they will go about the usual business which consists of dating and partying and breaking various laws.
Will never get why they call em "kids" when they're 25 yrs old..reminds me of when Moore accuses Bush of sending "children" to Iraq.
My niece is turning 18 on election day. She is voting Republican. All her friends are Republicans and THEIR parents are Democrats. hehehe I think our young people might be a little smarter than people give them credit for. Well, at least those young people that will actually vote.
I talked with a young man today about the after debate rally at ASU. He said that Kerry offered a free concert and about 20,000 people showed up. After the concert was over, everyone left before Kerry got there :o)
What matters is the real election, not a mock election. I wouldn't waste my time on a mock election either.
A couple of good points here. Springsteen is 50; he's not one with the college generation. In fact, there's another couple of businesslike and patriotic generations between Springsteen and his target audience. He's become a male Barbra Streisand to males of his own generation, which is probably the worst thing he could do for his business.
We have an all-volunteer military and the overwhelming majority believe in what they are doing. Sure, some soldiers have always griped in every war but Bush is expected to get 75 percent of the military vote.
The Democrats have done an ugly job of encouraging grieving (liberal) mothers to do their anti-Bush wailing in public. We had one of them arrested near here for heckling Laura Bush recently. Very sorry situation. The woman is near out of her mind but she shows up somewhere or contacts the press almost every day. Of course, her son volunteered.
Michael Moore hardly speaks for our military, which by the way, has launched the takeover offensive in Fallujah, which through coincident timing (I think not) is happening as the locals are telling the foreigners, Ba'athists and religious freaks to leave them alone and get out.
I saw it posted here the other night that Bush won the Choose or Loose post-debate poll 55% to 44%.
"My kid's college classmates don't like Bush. Last semester they were all pro-Kerry. This semester, they dislike Kerry more than Bush. They probably won't vote, but the fact that now that they've seen more of Kerry and he has turned them off, is rather comforting, IMHO."
Good post. I reminds me of my youth.
IMHO The youth are turning away from Kerry because he changes his mind too much. Forget the label Flip-flopper, but think back when you were a youth. Didn't you (like me)stand your ground about things even if it cut your own nose off (so to speak)?
In most cases when I was a teen or youth once I took a stand I stayed there. No matter what happened, or what someone said to sway me. I don't think I was so different from others my age, and I don't think that age group today have changed that much from when I was their age.
With that said, how can a teen or youth possibly follow John Kerry? George Bush seems to be their logical choice because he does not change his mind with the wind. Plus it is a bonus to Bush that he is tough.
My kid just came home from a conference at our church...so many of the kids are pro-Bush.
Someone gave him this "bracelet" to wear. It's a band that says Bush-Cheney on the outside, and on the inside is printed, "Only wear on your right arm". LOL.
I hadn't seen those yet, but one of the other kids had gotten them at the local GOP headquarters.
My kid just came home from a conference at our church...so many of the kids are pro-Bush.
Someone gave him this "bracelet" to wear. It's a band that says Bush-Cheney on the outside, and on the inside is printed, "Only wear on your right arm". LOL.
I hadn't seen those yet, but one of the other kids had gotten them at the local GOP headquarters.
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WOW! I want some for my daughters. I have 4 teenage daughters. They would love them. Me too. LOL
Of course not. I put myself back mentally into what I was interested in 30 years ago. How to pick up girls was #1. Partying was #2. Working was #3. A half-decent car was #4. When I accumulated enough money for #4, it became #1A, a Chevy Blazer 4WD which assisted me in the pursuit of #1. LOL:):) I don't think anything has changed civilizationally.
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