Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

What is so appealing about Ron Paul to young voters?
FOX News ^ | 1/31/12 | Karin Agness

Posted on 01/31/2012 12:00:06 PM PST by presidio9

The first primaries of 2012 are complete, but the fight over the proper role of government continues. The question before GOP primary voters is who best reflects their own answer to that question, and then, who is best suited to make that case to the American people?

A clear winner has yet to emerge, but there is little question about who has captured the loyalty of young Republican voters on this issue. Although finishing fourth overall, Ron Paul once again won the youth vote in South Carolina, winning 31% of ages 18-29, compared to Newt Gingrich who won 28%. Paul’s appeal, or more accurately, the appeal of Paul’s limited government message, is a key story to emerge from the Republican primaries.

There’s no mistaking the trend.

Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire primary, getting approximately 39% of the total vote. Ron Paul finished second with 23%, Jon Huntsman finished third with 17%, and Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum each won about 9% of the vote.

Yet young voters would have picked a different winner. According to Fox News exit polls, in New Hampshire, Paul won nearly half (46%) of the votes of people ages 18-29, while Romney won second place with just 26%.

Paul also won the youth vote in Iowa. In the Hawkeye State almost half (48%) of the Republican caucus goers ages 18-29 supported Paul, compared to 23% for the otherwise victorious Santorum, and 14% for Romney.

What is so appealing about Paul to young voters? One answer is that Paul has been the most outspoken candidate defending the importance of free enterprise and the limited role of government. And he has had a

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: apaulling; apaulogia; apaulogist; bongbrigade; dope; drugs; paul; ronpaul; whytheycallitdope; wod; wodlist; wosd
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 121-140141-160161-180 ... 241-246 next last
To: Moby Grape
What is so appealing about Ron Paul to young voters? they are on drugs....too easy...

Yes, altogether too easy to paint ALL young Paul supporters with that brush (though I expect it's true of SOME young Paul supporters).

Where do you stand on the relegalization of drugs?

141 posted on 02/01/2012 8:25:30 AM PST by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 139 | View Replies]

To: newheart
a laissez-faire approach to abortion, sexual behavior of all kinds, legalization of drugs, etc. It is as if the individual is set free, but without much responsibility except to oneself and to the market.

Why does an individual have a "responsibility" to not ingest certain substances or engage in certain consensual adult sexual behavior? Those acts violate no other individual's rights. They may affect other individuals - but that's far too broad a standard for governmental action, as almost everything anyone does "affects" someone else in some way.

142 posted on 02/01/2012 8:31:21 AM PST by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 133 | View Replies]

To: JustSayNoToNannies

There is too much money to be made in keeping them illegal. There is a very short transmission belt from street level proceeds to the hands of authorities. Very short. Not all authorities, but many.

I would add that I saw not a single drug abuser’s life improved by drug abusers, but a system where violent offenders are rolled out of prison to make room for some simple possession charge is broken in many ways and at many levels. Sounds good during elections though. “Zero tolerance!” Really? Then take away prosecutorial discretion, judicial discretion, pardons, paroles and ‘good time’. Won’t happen will it? ‘Zero tolerance’ is Purina sheep chow for the credulous reactionary.

Bitter? Damn right I am. And I was on the -enforcement- end!

Again I say, I -detest- drug abuse, but the ‘lock ‘em up and throw away the key’ is an utter fail, and has been for decades. Follow the money. It is meant to fail.


143 posted on 02/01/2012 8:46:48 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Gov. Perry quit for the right reasons, in the right way, at the right time. Thank you, sir.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 138 | View Replies]

To: jpsb
fatty food is bad for you too, sugar is a killer, caffeine dido and there is mercury in fish don’t ya know. No one should be allowed to ride a bike without a helmet, don’t forget to always walk with the traffic and only cross at the light. Oh do not even think about trying that black slope when all you have is a federally issued green slope license.

Because we regulate dangerous addictive drugs that not only kill the body, but destroy families and institutions, that does not mean we need to regulate everything. Your comparisons are as ludicrous as comparing pop-tarts to hand grenades in terms of danger to life and limb and show that you have no sense of discernment. There is a role for government, though considerably rolled back from where we are now. Conservatives are not anarchists.

Idiotic arguments like this are why I have no truck with libertarians.
144 posted on 02/01/2012 9:18:45 AM PST by Antoninus (Mitt Romney -- attempting to execute a hostile take-over of the Republican Party.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 114 | View Replies]

To: Antoninus

You are a idiot


145 posted on 02/01/2012 9:35:42 AM PST by jpsb
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 144 | View Replies]

To: JustSayNoToNannies

You’ve already been explained why drug legalization and Prohibition are not compatible. But, fools will stick with their postion, facts be damned.


146 posted on 02/01/2012 10:28:18 AM PST by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 99 | View Replies]

To: jmc813

Nearly all my comments regarding R-U-N Paul were on threads about politics. No need to worry about being de-friended. ;-)


147 posted on 02/01/2012 10:30:28 AM PST by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 112 | View Replies]

To: jpsb
"On February 7, 1984, President Reagan announced that he had asked for a plan for redeployment of the Marines from Beirut to ships offshore.

Nooooottttt exactly the same thing as pulling out of the ME. Reagan also ordered the attack against Libya. I have no doubt in my mind that were the 9/11/01 attacks to have occurred during Reagan's tenure, the U.S. would have jumped into the ME with both feet - possibly quicker than we did under Bush.

148 posted on 02/01/2012 10:34:21 AM PST by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 115 | View Replies]

To: Antoninus
You just got called “idiot” by a Paulitard...

Congrats...

LOL...

149 posted on 02/01/2012 10:59:10 AM PST by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 145 | View Replies]

To: SoldierDad

Discussing 20th and 21st century military and defensive tactics to a Paulitard is like explaining particle physics to Pygmies...


150 posted on 02/01/2012 11:02:22 AM PST by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 148 | View Replies]

To: SoldierDad

It is exactly the same thing as pulling out because that is exactly what Reagan did. The entirely place is a mess and not worth American blood or treasure.


151 posted on 02/01/2012 11:09:39 AM PST by jpsb
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 148 | View Replies]

To: ejonesie22
You just got called “idiot” by a Paulitard...Congrats...

Thanks. I consider it a badge of honor when that happens.
152 posted on 02/01/2012 11:13:36 AM PST by Antoninus (Mitt Romney -- attempting to execute a hostile take-over of the Republican Party.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 149 | View Replies]

To: ejonesie22

Yup, he wants to regulate stuff he doesn’t like but is incapable of realizing that those very same regulations and arguments will be used against him and stuff he does not want regulated. Even with a mountain of evidence starring him in the face, idiot.


153 posted on 02/01/2012 11:14:54 AM PST by jpsb
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 149 | View Replies]

To: Antoninus

Oh it is...


154 posted on 02/01/2012 11:15:43 AM PST by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 152 | View Replies]

To: jpsb
Good Lord, that is a stretch...

So what is the way out, no regulations?

Funny, there are some I like, such as those that guarantee a 100,000 lb interstate overpass can truly take 100,000 lbs, that airliners have inspections so engines don't fall off and hit a school, or that the Tylnol I take isn't laced with poison or is even not effective.

You argument is over simplified to the point of adorable but hardly viable in reality.

155 posted on 02/01/2012 11:19:58 AM PST by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 153 | View Replies]

To: ejonesie22
"So what is the way out, no regulations?

At the federal level? I see no need for the federal government to regulate what an adult American eats, drinks or smokes. Which is what this discussion is about. And Oh I do not use illegals drugs. So I don't have an agenda other then defending personal liberty with was I thought, an important part of being a conservative.

156 posted on 02/01/2012 11:26:37 AM PST by jpsb
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 155 | View Replies]

To: SoldierDad
You’ve already been explained why drug legalization and Prohibition are not compatible.

If you're referring to post #63, I already rebutted that in post #104.

157 posted on 02/01/2012 11:32:38 AM PST by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 146 | View Replies]

To: Antoninus
Because we regulate

You mean prohibit.

dangerous addictive drugs that not only kill the body, but destroy families and institutions

Except when we don't - as in the case of alcohol. We were wise enough to see that prohibiting that drug did little good and much harm, and we should be similarly wise with regard to other drugs.

158 posted on 02/01/2012 11:36:28 AM PST by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 144 | View Replies]

To: ejonesie22
So what is the way out, no regulations?

Funny, there are some I like, such as those that guarantee a 100,000 lb interstate overpass can truly take 100,000 lbs, that airliners have inspections so engines don't fall off and hit a school, or that the Tylnol I take isn't laced with poison or is even not effective.

So let's regulate recreational drugs like we regulate Tylenol - no claiming effects it doesn't have, and no poisonous impurities. (And don't bother coming back with "recreational drugs are poisons" - too much Tylenol is also a poison.)

159 posted on 02/01/2012 11:41:38 AM PST by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 155 | View Replies]

To: jpsb
Ahhh...

So it is just about eating drinking and smoking, I see...

So what about FDA regs on poisons in the food chain...

Remember that many food items are transported over state lines...

160 posted on 02/01/2012 11:41:47 AM PST by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 156 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 121-140141-160161-180 ... 241-246 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson