Freewheeling young voters scare both parties

Washington Examiner ^ | November 8, 2009 | Michael Barone

[gusopol3]

In November 2008, 658,000 Americans under 30 voted in New Jersey and 782,000 did so in Virginia. In November 2009, 212,000 Americans under 30 voted in New Jersey and 198,000 did so in Virginia. In other words, young voter turnout this year was down two-thirds in New Jersey and three-quarters in Virginia

[KC_Conspirator]

Duh. Young voters are stupid as Sh** and only vote in Presidential elections when the candidate is shown to be cool and give them freebies, like Bararck Hussein Obama, mmmm, mmmm, mmmm.

[gusopol3]

I wish he’d gone on to list the turnouts among the older voters as well, to show proportional impact.

[GnuHere]

It’s OK with me if they stay in bed for the next 3 years. Hopefully the “uniqueness” of voting for Bambi will have faded by then.

[gusopol3]

It will be eye-opening for them to be hunted down by the government to buy health insurance.

[Perdogg]

“young” voters did not make a difference in 2008. It was a myth. It was the old people who voted for the African colonel.

[jslade]

Duh. Young voters are stupid as Sh**

Starting to see the results of government schools yet?

[gusopol3]

Young voters went 66 to 32 percent for Barack Obama, while voters over 30 went for Obama by only 50 to 49 percent.

Here's his numbers, you're right BO gets a 1 % win, but that wouldn't have translated into a filibuster proof Senate or a House majority the size they have to produce radical health care destruction

[KC_Conspirator]

I know that as well.

[Will88]

Most college kids are the biggest bunch of conformists and fad followers on earth. There was a herd mentality, group think thing going on in 2008 about how cool it’d be to vote for a black guy. Like most fads, it was much less evident a couple of years later.

I’d bet there was also a big drop off in the number guilt-ridden white folks of all ages voting as Obama wanted.

[gusopol3]

That’s why Palin scared Obama so badly, almost peeled off the young female vote.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

I don’t think they are afraid of young voters, only freewheeling voters.

The idea that we could be calling the shots and beyond their manipulation terrifies them, I’m sure.

[CPOSharky]

Ah not be votin fo sum old white dude.

[madinmadtown]

They will not have jobs so they might be staying in bed day after day. They still don't realize that the fact that they don't have jobs is the responsibility of the Dems and unless the Conservatives start making video games that are history lessons, I fear that they will never understand the basics of political and economic principles.

[Arrowhead1952]

This article was posted on FR a few days ago. I hope a lot of young voters read for future reference.

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Young Americans to be sold into slavery
http://www.examiner.com/x-28684-Dallas-Public-Policy-Examiner~y2009m11d4-Young-Americans-to-be-sold-into-slavery

[Muzzle_em]

Nope, the govt. will force their parents to buy it for them!

[uncbob]

Yeah but there will be 2 more years of brain washed graduates by then

[TexasFreeper2009]

They voted for Obama because they saw it as a game like American Idol where you vote for your favorite, and wanted to be a part of history with their useless wasted lives.

But now that they’ve been unemployed for over a year, the reality is starting to set in .... what have we done!

[uncbob]

They see too many Movies where Denzel -Will- Lawrence- Samuel are the heroes saving the country and the white guy is either just along for the ride or the bad guy

[uncbob]

“young” voters did not make a difference in 2008. It was a myth. It was the old people who voted for the African colonel.

You saw different results than I did The ones I saw said 52% OF SENIORS voted for McCain