From your lips to God’s ears...
WE think he should get slaughtered...but let’s look at a demographic we’re not thinking about here.
For YEARS “we” have talked about the youth vote, the college kids, if “we” (Dems and Reps) could just get them to come out and vote...but- after each cycle..we sit back and say- maybe next time. They simply do not show up on election day (in significant numbers)...let alone for primaries.
Obama has mobilized thousands upon thousands of YOUNG, first-time voters to actually register and get out on primary day.
I was watching BHO in Texas and I thought he said that he wanted to repeal the Bush tax cuts (no surprise) and give tax relief to families making less than $75K and for families making less than $50K they would not pay any taxes. So, there’s a lot of people making less than $50K if they would just get their lazy arses to the polls who would vote for him just for the “free” education and medical proposals alone. That is scary.
When 18 year olds became eligible to vote, I was with a lot of young people in a university setting. They were almost all liberal, as such people tend to be. Nixon was running for his second term. The young people hated him. They made signs, held protests and marches, etc.
After Nixon won, I asked as many of them as I could how they voted and almost none of them voted. They "knew" that he would lose because they didn't know anybody who liked him.
In elections that have followed, they don't vote.
All their rhetoric about the current contest notwithstanding, I suspect their behavior will run true to form and they go to the party or something and forget to vote.
Again.
You must have been born yesterday. We're watchiing LIBERALS competing against LIBERALS , brokered by a LIBERAL Press. LIBERALS are a minority in this country.
People are sick of Bush but they have not assimilated what it would mean to elect the MOST Liberal Senator in the Congress, more liberal than Kennedy, Clinton, Dodd, anybody. He's not going to slip in without this being trumpetted by conservative interest groups. His favorables are going to drop like a rock, wait and see.
You posted:
“From your lips to God’s ears...
WE think he should get slaughtered...but let’s look at a demographic we’re not thinking about here.
For YEARS “we” have talked about the youth vote, the college kids, if “we” (Dems and Reps) could just get them to come out and vote...but- after each cycle..we sit back and say- maybe next time. They simply do not show up on election day (in significant numbers)...let alone for primaries.
Obama has mobilized thousands upon thousands of YOUNG, first-time voters to actually register and get out on primary day.”
Thanks for saying it. I’ve been saying this on the “Vote for Obama in the primaries” threads and keep getting bashed by the Hillary haters. Folks just aren’t aware that he turns out the vote in massive numbers...and she doesn’t.