Newsweek Poll (OF VOTERS UNDER 30): Race is now dead even for voters under 30

MSNBC ^ | Sept. 25, 2004 | Brian Braiker

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

Bush will now have to re-assure young voters there will probably not be a draft.

Take THAT, MTV.

[gov_bean_ counter]

One would think (hope) that over the years as the FDR Bluehairs pass from the church militant to the church triumphant that their place on the senior citizens roll would be taken by people who chose to depend more on their own retirement planning and less on Social Security and the government.

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

Oh yea...

I flipped it over to MTV and they ACTUALLY "INTERRUPTED" A SHOW WITH A BLATANT ROCK THE VOTE TIMEOUT !

[Poincare]

I have a tough time believing there are enough votes in the African-American and Bluehair communities to close the male gap that much.

Those constituencies have better than 100 percent turnout.

[Richard Kimball]

Yeah, but consider this:

[BoBToMatoE]

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. :)

[jmaroneps37]

Bad news for frenchie. This is yet another demo group he will lose.

[Wonderama]

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.

[hg23]

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.

[Truth Table]

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.

[Polybius]

The left has to take good news where they can get it I 'spose. Yep. The under 30 vote. That's the demographic that everyone covets. Yep.

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.

[LifeTrek]

Choose or lose, MTV's Dilemma

[ConservativeMan55]

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