Obama Campus Fervor Losing to Apathy as Students Sour on 2012

Bloomberg | Mar 29, 2012 | Andrew Theen

[neverdem]

Click here to read it.

[DarthVader]

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[GeronL]

Romney sure isn’t going to excite them

[Psycho_Bunny]

I think many of the students won’t acknowledge it but somewhere, deep inside some of them, they know this President and his party have severally hampered and degraded their futures.

[The Working Man]

Interesting article, I’m not surprised at the apathy and lack of fervor among young people and college students in particular. Think about it: No/few job prospects and a massive student loan debt hanging over their heads.

It’s no wonder that the Media/Dems are looking to cook up a race war to get the juices flowing and President Obama will be there above the fray urging calm while in the background pumping up the rhetoric.

At least that’s what my crystal ball is showing for the future of the country.

[peeps36]

The polls showing obama with 48% approval ratings can't be realistic if he can't even reach that high on college campuses. He is in big trouble if he can't even sway college kids.

[A_Former_Democrat]

“We told you so”

[StAntKnee]

Race war?

Serious question. How will that help obama?

[Verginius Rufus]

Maybe it's just the Massachusetts connection. Massachusetts Presidents and Vice Presidents, and Presidential candidates, just aren't very exciting.

John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Henry Wilson
Calvin Coolidge
Michael Dukakis
George H. W. Bush
John Kerry
Mitt Romney

The Adamses and Coolidge may have been prety good Presidents, but they weren't long on excitement.

The exception that proves the rule is John F. Kennedy.

(Wilson was the VP during Grant's second term.)

[Monorprise]

“Romney sure isn’t going to excite them”

He should try with Ron Paul, but in the end he doesn’t have to he nearly has to keep the passive and dissolution with Obama.

[Seaplaner]

It's not too difficult.

A tyrant can only scare and bully people so much, and they become inured.

And, a Goebbelsian "big lie" (even with the obedient help of media fellow travelers) can only succeed to the point at which people start believing their own eyes and experiences.

All regimes based on fraud, deceit, and corruption eventually fail.

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[tomkat]

Votes aren’t the end game .. the maggøt wants a Reichstag fire.

[unkus]

Votes aren’t the end game .. the maggøt wants a Reichstag fire.

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Exactly.

And the evil bastard is going to end up in his own Fuherbunker.

[Oceander]

Race war?

Serious question. How will that help obama?

Because it gets sold as blacks/minorities struggling to protect themselves from the depredations of the republicans, who always let themselves get tarred and feathered by liberals/democrats with the "hater" epithet, and the pitch will be "if you're a person of conscience who wants to protect the oppressed and downtrodden, then you'll join us in the fight against the forces of evil."

Everyone, particularly younger people, who tend to be rather ovine when it comes to what they do - not having sufficient experience to have developed a set of mature principles to guide their own behavior, they tend to follow a charismatic trend-setter simply in order not to be the odd man out - fancies themselves a person of conscience who, of course, will fight the good fight to protect the innocent from the forces of evil, and since it takes wisdom more than intelligence to tell the difference, a race war would make it possible for the democrats/liberals to make that rhetorical, but substantively false, pitch to the younger crowd which, so far, appears to be suffering from a surfeit of apathy this time around.

For those who believe that good intentions trump actual results, a race war is always a useful rhetorical device.

[StAntKnee]

Welp! I’m no conspiracy type.

But his guy is behaving so badly, i can’t figure out a dinged thing so anything could be possible.

Never try to reason with a drunk or debate a madman. Eh?

[StAntKnee]

Welp! I’m no conspiracy type.

But his guy is behaving so badly, i can’t figure out a dinged thing so anything could be possible.

Never try to reason with a drunk or debate a madman. Eh?

[LibsRJerks]

Well, I’m on campus, and a Catholic one at that, and all I ever see are drooling fans of Democrats who think Republicans are trying to send women “back to the dark ages” in terms of controlling birth control. It’s as if NOTHING else matters to them in life.

Of course, it’s a wealthier school in a more liberal and very insolated area ... sort of like the very epicenter of the entire problem type of area, if you know what I mean.

[Cato in PA]

Everybody across the board is apathetic because nobody’s satisfied and there are no real choices. Liberals haven’t received their promised utopia. Conservatives haven’t received the resistance we hoped would come from 2010. No matter who wins, Obama or Romney, nothing will change for either side.

[Mygirlsmom]

Romney sure isn’t going to excite them

No matter. They will stay home and not vote, which is as it should be. Unless they have had a taste of the real world and found that liberalism isn't all it's cracked up to be, I'd rather they just don't do it.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It’s not just the race war, either. The evil Republican “war on women” is big with single women in the 20s. My own daughter has succumbed to that ridiculous theme without any critical thinking of her own (I am ashamed to say). To her, the most important issue of the day is a woman’s right to murder her unborn baby.