Young voters who helped elect Obama stayed home

Associated Press ^ | Nov. 4, 2009 | DENA POTTER

[Free ThinkerNY]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Last year, 23-year-old Rashida Hill watched the presidential debates, visited the college political party meetings and put a Barack Obama bumper sticker on her townhouse door. She voted for Obama because she felt like the election was about "being a part of something."

But on Tuesday, the Virginia Commonwealth University student didn't bother voting in the governor's race because, she said, the candidates didn't give her anything to get excited about.

"The simple fact is, unless you put it in front of somebody, they're really not going to seek it out," Hill said.

[GI Joe Fan]

So the drones are hiding out in Mom's basement these days?

Interesting.

[MrB]

She voted for Obama because she felt like the election was about "being a part of something."

Yep, I mocked people like this after the election.
They wanted to "vote for the cool black guy" and "be a part of history", regardless of how destructive putting him in power would be.

[a fool in paradise]

"...the candidates didn't give her anything to get excited about."

No free Bruce Springsteen or Radiohead or Decemberists concert.

[freespirited]

The White House desparately needs this meme: it’s not that voters turned on us, it’s that our people didnt show up.

Baloney.

[a fool in paradise]

They got their first paycheck while working part-time in college and asked “What’s this FICA?!!!”

[the long march]

Facile and vapid voters are better off not voting. That way the rest of us won’t be as likely to strangle them for their stupidity

[bigbob]

If Corzine had hired Springsteen, he would have won

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Couldn’t tear themselves away from the bong and that bag of Doritos.

[doodad]

Indeed. I saw this the whole time in line at my polling place that fateful day. And the stupid cretins did not even vote on any other items on the agenda, just President and finish so you could get back to the apartment and the bong.

[a fool in paradise]

15 minutes of fame. The hype cannot be sustained.

[US Navy Vet]

“Rashida Hill” hummm...

[<1/1,000,000th%]

They found 1 anyway.

[MrB]

You really think the majority of them get a paycheck?

[Infralutheran]

Perhaps she was one of those Obama voters who thought that he would fill her car with gas. Now she is completely puzzled as to why her car has been unable to start for the last 11 and a half months.

[April Lexington]

Well, she is now a PART of the generation who will enjoy a much lower standard of living as they struggle to make their way while paying back all of the debt Obama and Pelosi and Ried just pounded down her throat! Thanks for paying for my retirement, sweetie!

[Cyber Liberty]

Be happy they didn’t screw up the down-ballot races....

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"be a part of history"

We're history all right ... or will be ... if Obama gets his way for 8 years.

[kittymyrib]

So the Black voters on the Democrat plantation aren’t going to come out on election day unless they can vote for a Black, or even a half-Black, candidate. The Democrats richly deserve this after stoking the fires of racial politics all these years.

[Puppage]

They wanted to "vote for the cool black guy" and "be a part of history"

Yep

They all wanted the Kodak Moment