Posted on 06/12/2012 4:59:45 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
Nearly four years after enthusiastic younger voters poured into polling booths to help push Barack Obama over the finish line and into the Oval Office, their hope has turned to fear and pollster John Zogby says that they are ready to give up on politics.
“I truly am worried about today's twenty-somethings,” he frets. “They are our global generation and I have seen them move from hope and grand expectations for themselves and their world to anxiety and disillusionment. We can't afford to lose them,” he adds.
Zogby previewed his remarks to the League of Women Voters 50th anniversary convention Monday night with Secrets. His worry: that younger voters will stop voting.
(snip) “You are needed more than ever,” he says of the group. “I see from your mission that you 'encourage' and I think we all need to move into crisis mode and use the word 'engage'. Especially young women.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Looks like that old 1967 Timothy Leary phrase,
“Turn on, tune in, drop out,”
is becoming popular once again but I’m hoping it is in a conservative direction.
If Obama says those words, he will make his defeat in November. even more resounding.
It will turn off the many who either did not use the student loan program or who faithfully paid their loans off. Plus, most voters would quickly call it a phony desperate campaign ruse.
I really doubt Zogby ever really sampled young conservatives. They are universally shunned in most areas
where one like Zogby would sample - liberal college campuses and universities.
I’d be willing to be there is no disillusionment with Obama with them. They KNOW what he is and they are energized, but not to vote for him.
I’m glad to hear Obama’s 99%ers aren’t going to get out and vote - they don’t need to be voting anyway.
Gloves, masks and in 0h0m0's world, briefs are off!
Zogby, a commie bastard who lost his "polling" credibility a long time ago.
He ain't polling any more; he's "polluting" Americans' brains by misleading the younger “global” generation to the 0kaka’s Promised Utopia.
Yes Mr. Zogby. It it is very impotant to have the youngest and women engaged because the former are largely uneducated and the latter are so in touch with their feelings, with a nominal percentage voting for the liberal America hater.
Didn’t you know that Occupy Wall Street and the liberal’s claim of a republican War On Women were attempts to get both women and “the young”.....”engaged?”
Let’ em vote. When I got drafted at age 22 into the Marine Corps I had recently voted for the man whose name was on my draft notice. There’s always going to be a “How about....?” but that shouldn’t stop you from doing the right thing. I absolutely believe in the draft. There are now two generations growed up that didn’t have the advantage of having the draft hanging over them and I say that in all seriousness.
Funny thing about us draftees - we seemed to be the best damm qualified recruits in the platoon. Those are the ones you didn’t get any more when the draft went away.
Thanks for your service, 0811. I was a 4111 in the Marine Corps but a 13 Bravo in the National Guard. Same thing as an 0811.
You dang right I skated!!! I made E5 in 21 months and never left the East Coast. I was a REMF to beat all REMFs! They knew a good man when they saw one! “;^)
1970 was the year. Well, I got drafted in ‘69 but didn’t go in until January of ‘70. Never actually worked in the PX. I was a bookkeeper/accountant @ Quantico. But not at the PX. I’ll explain it all to you some day.
Did spend about 13 years in the Field Artillery; first M114 and later M198. Battery B, 2/197th FA, NHARNG. Loved it. Especially the last couple years when I was an FO.
Great news! Stay at home November 6th. Don’t vote
I dunno, xsmommy. My parents were about as conservative as it gets, but not all 5 of their progeny followed suit. Sometimes it just takes a little of life's experience to wise up. Sometimes, you just have to accept that some folks are not ever going to get it.
Not even Zogby can apply eonough of his sauce to color the election toward the punk president. Everytime Obama opens his mouth, it’s is tending toward more and more gaffes. Truly a campaign in panic mode.
Gawd, I hope not. I hope he just squeaks in.
No, i get that. But i do think that Conservative parents need to discuss the whys and wherefores of their ideology on any given issue, and not just BE conservative. When we talk about stuff as a family we always say things like Liberals will tell you XYZ, here is what we believe and why we believe they are wrong about this. My husband and I were both liberals when we first got married. I grew up in a blue collar union Dem voting family, but my parents weren’t educated and the reigning philosophy in my house was dems are for the “little guy” and republicans are for “the rich.” My brother and i are both hardcore conservatives, but my dad was a democrat until the day he died [and the union probably still has him voting in PA to this day, 10 years later! LOL!] Because liberals are all about FEELINGs and conservatives are all about THINKING, i honestly can’t imagine that my kids will ever be liberals. Whereas my husband and were both liberals growing up, and became conservatives once we starting THINKING.
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