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Confirmed: Youth Vote Escaping Obama's Spell
The National Review ^ | August 20, 2008 | Guy Benson

Posted on 08/20/2008 3:13:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

A few weeks ago, I noted a shift in polling data indicating that Barack Obama's stranglehold on the so-called "youth vote" was weakening. A Reuters summary of the latest Zogby poll confims the trend:

"Obama's support among voters between the ages of 18 and 29, which had been one of his strengths, slipped 12 percentage points to 52 percent. McCain, who will turn 72 next week, was winning 40 percent of younger voters."

Anecdotally, I can attest that several of my friends — fellow twenty-somethings — who were once quite enthusiastic about Obama have recently expressed disappointment in his campaign. "I'm so sick of reading headlines like 'Obama Slams McCain,' or vice versa," one told me. "I thought that this campaign would actually be different, but it's not. It's depressing."

The more Obama wades into the mud, the less transcendent he appears, and his Unity/Hope/Change message is exposed for the vacuous nonsense that it is. This data should be worrisome for Team Obama because their ultimate base is slipping away. Perhaps it's time for another super-hip will.i.am video.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008polls; changewecanbelievein; democrats; election; electionpresident; elections; mccain; nobama08; obama; obamayouth; polls; youthvote
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To: oust the louse

Political involvement goes up with the various stages of adulthood:

First paycheck
Marriage
Homebuying
Children
School-age Children
Teenage Children

The more skin you have invested in the game. The more involved you get in protecting it.


41 posted on 08/20/2008 4:17:25 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: ModelBreaker
I bet he got a trophy for showing up.

Yep, but that is just because those "typical white" bowling pins wouldn't fall down for him. They were racist bowling pins.

42 posted on 08/20/2008 4:25:35 PM PDT by Surtur
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I was NEVER under his spell!! Sorry I can never vote - if I could vote this year - for a MARXIST.

The job is above his pay scale - and his EXPERIENCE, too!!!

43 posted on 08/20/2008 4:28:40 PM PDT by RightWingTeen (Caution: homeschooled teen with a Brain that works - LIBERALS you can't control me!!)
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To: F15Eagle
It was that stunning 37 that Obama bowled.

Blindfolded, I could bowl better!!

44 posted on 08/20/2008 4:29:58 PM PDT by RightWingTeen (Caution: homeschooled teen with a Brain that works - LIBERALS you can't control me!!)
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To: Eagles6

I ain’t got no problem.


46 posted on 08/20/2008 4:35:34 PM PDT by silentreignofheroes (In my day,Flunking gym was not an option , even for Stupid Kids!)
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To: silentreignofheroes

You sound like one of those typical people who cling to guns and religion. Your individualism shall be curtailed in the kingdom of the obamamessiah for the benefit of those not like you.


47 posted on 08/20/2008 4:45:10 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck)
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To: Tamar1973

Thank God for absentee ballots.


48 posted on 08/20/2008 4:51:36 PM PDT by xc1427 (It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees...Midnight Oil (Power and the Passion))
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To: longtermmemmory

I think they are just sick of Obama. He is now “so yesterday”. I think they thought he was cool and popular but he is fading in popularity so they are ready to move on. Bottom line: Obama is no longer cool. I think the media is getting tired of him, too. I look for them to turn to Hillary and start pushing her again. Obama is like the exciting new guy in school who is all the rage and all the girls lose their minds over him, but the glow fades and they gradually drift back to the old faithful boyfriend and their regular life.


49 posted on 08/20/2008 4:52:16 PM PDT by beckysueb (Drill here! Drill now!)
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To: longtermmemmory

They are consumer savy visually. Now, most kids still are not too savy when it comes to oratory...having to use their ears.


50 posted on 08/20/2008 4:53:58 PM PDT by xc1427 (It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees...Midnight Oil (Power and the Passion))
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To: silentreignofheroes

Yes, it is aleap year. Obama is leaping for change...the quarter, dime, nickel, and penny presidential candidate.


51 posted on 08/20/2008 4:55:56 PM PDT by xc1427 (It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees...Midnight Oil (Power and the Passion))
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To: Eagles6

Damn,Have mercy.I’m just a dumb Southern Boy.


52 posted on 08/20/2008 5:36:10 PM PDT by silentreignofheroes (In my day,Flunking gym was not an option , even for Stupid Kids!)
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To: fishergirl

I stated for a year now, and it is becoming more and more apparent: I believe that the super long election cycle is going to very seriously hurt the turnout of marginal voters: and that means such as college students and other younger voters, for certain.


53 posted on 08/20/2008 5:49:44 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: goodolemr
I just heard the Speaker of the House on CNN trashing the polls because they are likely voters. Said the old model should be thrown out because Obama is going to attrack first time voters, yadda yadda yadda.

Hahaaha... Pelosi is delusional.

54 posted on 08/20/2008 7:16:40 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: silentreignofheroes
I'm just a Yankee, Hillbilly to the elite. I'd rather be in my garden or hunting than watching tv (which I don't have).

I cling to my Bible, especially when reloading, as it may be the last thing I see as I rocket towards the moon.

55 posted on 08/20/2008 10:24:42 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is this the same “youth vote” that elected former president algor and former president frenchie? Just asking.


56 posted on 08/21/2008 5:48:37 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: F15Eagle

I think if I could try bowling a 37 I couldn’t, unless I put most of the balls in the gutter!!


57 posted on 08/21/2008 9:09:37 AM PDT by RightWingTeen (Caution: homeschooled teen with a Brain that works - LIBERALS you can't control me!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Post of the Day nominee! ROFL!


58 posted on 08/21/2008 9:14:01 AM PDT by Yaelle
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"Brother be clean!"

59 posted on 08/21/2008 9:14:54 AM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: RightWingTeen

They should have put up the gutter guards for him.


60 posted on 08/21/2008 9:15:20 AM PDT by Yaelle
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