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Young voters who helped elect Obama stayed home
Associated Press ^ | Nov. 4, 2009 | DENA POTTER

Posted on 11/04/2009 1:33:51 PM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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KEYWORDS: democrat; democratparty; democrats; drones; jonestown; koolaid; losers; obama
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To: Free ThinkerNY

She wasn’t excited about their skin color I suppose.


41 posted on 11/04/2009 2:45:01 PM PST by rep-always
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To: MrB
We have to make mockery of 0bama prevalent in our society by then.
Make it uncool.
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42 posted on 11/04/2009 3:05:48 PM PST by Canedawg (FUBO)
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To: GnuHere

Cute.


43 posted on 11/04/2009 3:24:33 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Infralutheran

she said, the candidates didn’t give her anything to get excited about.

“Did not give her.”


44 posted on 11/04/2009 4:05:22 PM PST by Lumper20
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Perhaps the reason why they didn't turn out to vote is they were still waiting in line for their Obama Money

45 posted on 11/04/2009 10:07:44 PM PST by TheCipher
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