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Obama: Clinton Would Have Won In A Landslide If Only Young People Voted
The Hill ^ | November 30, 2016 | By Brooke Seipel

Posted on 12/01/2016 6:22:25 AM PST by Fennie

Hillary Clinton would have won in a landslide if only young people had voted, President Obama said in an interview with Rolling Stone published Tuesday.

"If you look at the data from the election, if it were just young people who were voting, Hillary would have gotten 500 electoral votes," Obama told the Rolling Stone.

"So we have helped, I think, shape a generation to think about being inclusive, being fair, caring about the environment." Young Americans, he said, "will have growing influence year by year, which means that America over time will continue to get better."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; elections; obama; trump; youthvote
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To: Fennie

If “ifs” and “buts” were candy and nuts, it’d be Christmas every day.


61 posted on 12/01/2016 6:43:41 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Somewhere Jeb weeps. (please clap))
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To: Fennie

Yawn.


62 posted on 12/01/2016 6:43:54 AM PST by boomop1 (Term limits is the only way to change this failed government.)
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To: Fennie
"So we have helped, I think, shape a generation to think about being inclusive, being fair, caring about the environment." Young Americans, he said, "will have growing influence year by year, which means that America over time will continue to get better."

On the other hand - these young people, whose only awareness of the world around them has been shaped by government indoctrination centers of public education and leftist academia, will get a dose of the real world and realize over the next few election cycles that socialist ideology only works in fairy tales, and they will move to the right once that reality sets in.

63 posted on 12/01/2016 6:44:43 AM PST by VRWCmember
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To: Obadiah
Yeah, and if the bullfrog had wings he’d fly away.

Yeah, and he wouldn't bump his ass every time he jumped!

Regards,
GtG

64 posted on 12/01/2016 6:44:58 AM PST by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, but it's OK. They all know me here.)
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To: DadOfFive

“But it would have Bernie, not Hillary, they seem to overlook that.”

Bingo!


65 posted on 12/01/2016 6:47:25 AM PST by VMI70
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To: Fennie
If only...
If only 0bama's minimum wage policies hadn't left millions of young people unemployed and living in their mom's basement, maybe they would have gone out and voted for Hillary.
If only 0bama's policies hadn't made college education much more costly and less desirable, maybe they would have voted for Hillary.
If only young people hadn't read news, blogs and posts for themselves and instead only listened to 0bama, maybe they would have voted for Hillary.

Mr 0, as long as you blame everyone but yourself for losing the election, you're looking in the wrong place.

66 posted on 12/01/2016 6:48:34 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Fennie

My son turned 18 just in time to vote, which he did. Since he practically lives in his MAGA hat, I doubt his voting helped Hillary.


67 posted on 12/01/2016 6:50:46 AM PST by sportutegrl
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To: freepertoo; Fennie

Hussein in this rare instance is right. I saw a map of millennial vote. Trump only carried about eight states.

OTOH, if only MEN voted, Trump would have carried about 36 states.


68 posted on 12/01/2016 6:51:44 AM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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To: freepertoo
I don’t believe that.

I do.

The media had managed to make Trump toxic to Millenials. The vast majority bought the line of crap that supporting him makes you a racist.

The vast majority sat home because they were experiencing a major case of butt-hurt over the game being rigged against their buddy Bernie. Hillary could have reversed this by fully embracing his Free College scam. They would have turned out in droves.

I am actually rather stunned that she did not try this.


69 posted on 12/01/2016 6:53:30 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: freepertoo
I don't believe it neither, but I have to say .... the high schools are not turning out politically, socially or morally steerable ships.

They graduate as flounders and just ... flounder around for a while until they marry, go to prison or figure it out, all of which takes a lot of time.

The American public education system is just that, kids are educated to be public servants .... not Americans with a compass.

70 posted on 12/01/2016 6:54:57 AM PST by knarf
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To: Fennie

How about this trump tweet.....” obama said hillary would have won with more young votes... He meant she would have won with more illegal votes”


71 posted on 12/01/2016 6:55:11 AM PST by BRL
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To: Morpheus2009

She will have other hungry Democrats who want their turn running against her in the primaries. She’ll never make it past that. Maybe even another woman will challenge her. Hillary needs to face facts that she’s done. Stick a fork in her.


72 posted on 12/01/2016 6:55:36 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: Fennie
"So we have helped, I think, shape a generation to think about being inclusive, being fair, caring about the environment." Young Americans, he said, "will have growing influence year by year, which means that America over time will continue to get better."

Wrong. You blew your chance. We now have 16 years for them to grow up and develop normal thinking before they have any opportunity to change anything for the "better". In the meantime, behind them is Gen Z and they already seem to have a head start on more conservative values.

73 posted on 12/01/2016 6:57:26 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Fennie
Obama finally saw the movie, “Wild In The Streets”.
74 posted on 12/01/2016 6:58:34 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: Fennie

A lot of young people did turn out to vote in the dem primaries. To vote for Bernie Sanders.

However, Clinton, Wasserman and the rest of the filthy DNC rigged the primaries against Bernie supporters,and so many of them didn’t bother to vote in the general election.

Apparently a lot of blacks stayed home too as they are also sick of being taken for granted by the filthy dems.

It seems everyday Obama has a different excuse for his humiliating repudiation. He is in denial if he doesn’t connect the collapse of the dem party over the last 8 years with us own crappy policies and divisive rhetoric.


75 posted on 12/01/2016 7:00:27 AM PST by AC86UT89
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To: Fennie
Obama: Clinton Would Have Won In A Landslide If Only Young People Voted

They did Mr Obola...

They voted for Trump.

76 posted on 12/01/2016 7:01:48 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs)
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To: Fennie

“I coulda been a contenda. I coulda been somebody.”


77 posted on 12/01/2016 7:02:52 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: Fennie

What President Odumbo doesn’t realize is that many of these young voters will actually grow UP, which means they will mature into logical, thinking, and thereby, conservative adults.

Hopefully, many of them have seen the folly of just growing OLD, and becoming a bitter, Liberal, leftist who demands that all of America rejoice in failed utopian dreams!

In other words, many of these young people haven’t been mugged yet (by criminals or the government (but I repeat myself))!!!


78 posted on 12/01/2016 7:03:08 AM PST by ExTxMarine (Public sector unions: A & B agreeing on a contract to screw C!)
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To: Fennie

Woulda Coulda Shoulda....


79 posted on 12/01/2016 7:03:30 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: AC86UT89

I will make a prediction for you.

IF the Dems ever get control of both houses and POTUS again (Dear God, Please, NO!!!) they will cram through a law REQUIRING people to show PROOF of HAVING VOTED in order to receive welfare or student aid.

Take that one to the bank!


80 posted on 12/01/2016 7:04:00 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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