Young Republicans: Survey says: Undergrads swing right

The American Prowler ^ | 11/10/2003 | Charles Rousseaux

[MegaSilver]

You have a lot of good sense, MS. I have more confidence in the path your generation will take this nation than I have in my own.

Ha... thanks. Yeah, I pretty much love most of my peers. I think we're definitely poised to do some damage... whether that's good or bad, I have yet to say. ;)

[RightWingAtheist]

What must really tee off the Left about this is that this conservative upswing is occuring at a time where females outnumber males on campus, and the student body is more racially and ethnically diverse than ever. Heh heh heh....

[ntnychik]

Are the Republicans capitalizing with on-campus voter registration drives? You can be sure the leftists are out there finding kids to stuff ballot boxes.

[katherineisgreat]

I'm a junior in High School. Lots of kids here are Republicans. But quietly. Unfortunately, the liberal segment is very loud and sukcs in many uneducated kids who want to have "cool" beliefs. So far my Young republican club has yet to gain traction, though we had a nice debate with Amnesty about the war last year.

But on the whole, kids are more Conservative today than they used to be.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Yeah, and anyone who is still a socialist/liberal at 40 has no brain...i guess they left that out "..if a man is not liberal at 20, he has no heart; if he is not conservative at 30, he has no brain."

[Prov3456]

I'm a baby boomer whose first vote for President was also in 1972. I honestly can't remember WHO I voted for then, but I did vote for Carter in 1976. I was liberal on many issues, including abortion, but became more conservative as I paid taxes and watched what the liberal policies of the real world were doing to me and my family.

By 1980 I was a full-fledged Republican who voted for Reagan (both times) and have been Republican/conservative ever since.

We have raised our two children, now college freshmen, with a conservative, supply-side, pro-life perspective. They are at the age when they will begin to decide for themselves--but based on conversations we have had, they tend to be as conservative as their parents. :)

[IndyTiger]

Demographics is one of the biggest challenges facing the Democratic Party. As the FDR-JFK liberals are aging and dying off, a majority of the nations youth leaning conservative is bad news for the Dems.