Posted on 09/25/2004 8:07:31 AM PDT by Nascardude
Sept. 24 - John Kerry’s lead among younger voters has vanished as they become increasingly inclined to see the country as headed in the right direction, according to the first GENEXT poll conducted since the Republican National Convention in late August. advertisement If the election were held today, the two main candidates would be neck-and-neck among under-30 voters, with 45 percent of them voting for Kerry and 44 percent for President George W. Bush. Independent candidate Ralph Nader draws 6 percent of the youth vote. Last month Kerry had the support of 50 percent of young voters, Bush had 41 percent. (In the most recent NEWSWEEK poll of all registered voters, taken between Sept. 9 and 10, Bush led Kerry with 49 percent of the vote versus the challenger's 43 percent.) The increased support for Bush is also reflected in the narrowing spread between younger voters who believe the country is headed along the right track or in the wrong direction. Last month, 54 percent of those polled felt the country was headed in the wrong direction, compared to 42 percent who saw it as being on the right track. In the new poll, nearly as many people felt it was on the right track (47 percent) as felt it was heading in the wrong direction (51 percent). TAKE THE GENEXT POLL The incumbent and his challenger are tied among voters under 30. Which one gets your vote? Or are you waiting for the debates to choose? Tell us what you think.
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Take THAT, MTV.
I flipped it over to MTV and they ACTUALLY "INTERRUPTED" A SHOW WITH A BLATANT ROCK THE VOTE TIMEOUT !
Those constituencies have better than 100 percent turnout.
This is great news and is perhaps what the dems are spreading lies about the draft. We need to engage and defeat them in the arena of ideas.. in this case, the arena of TRUTH.
I think people see Kerry for who he is. Lets keep the faith that they do. :)
Bad news for frenchie. This is yet another demo group he will lose.
The poll was taken of registered voters, people that have at least taken the time to register. I think this is a great trend. I would like to see a poll of "likely voters" also, but again, I think it's great.
The poll of young voters was taken September 7-22. It shouldn't take that long to poll. The findings would be more significant to me if the interviews had occured in the past few days.
We will have to see what happens in turn out. That demographic usually favors liberals, but the turn out is so low, nobody bothers with them other than "rock the vote" on MTV.
Now, if the demographic is trending conservative, it will be interesting to see how the demographic preforms on Nov 3. If it turns out in favor of conservatives, it would be one more depressing note in the song of the "fat lady" for the democrat party.
I am skeptical though. Like I said, look at who composes the demographic, in general.
Well, actually, the under 30 vote is the inexperienced vote that the Democrats always capture. If the race is dead even in this group, then Kerry is in very deep trouble.
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