[Ultima]

A Majority of young people are non-white and a huge majority are going to vote democrat for life just like their parents.

[sickoflibs]

I am skeptical of his prediction (for a longer term) however Romney and McCain were pretty crappy candidates, McCain was a guaranteed losing pick in 2008 and Romney wasn’t all that much better four years later.

We definitely need better than them.

[5thGenTexan]

They are too young to remember much about the Bush years

Alinsky tactics begin to fail when the response to the one demonized becomes "Who?". Politics moves away from personality and back to issues. And the Democrats find themselves in trouble...

[madprof98]

. . . the excitement surrounding the first Obama presidential campaign

The rallies at Nuremberg!!!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A conservative is just a Liberal who go mugged, and today's teenagers are definitely getting mugged by the feral government.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Any young person who opens his or her eyes and sees the path we are on has to be conservative. They will be able to see that when they are in their 50s and 60s, or even their 40s, that our country’s Welfare State Ponzi scheme will be falling apart and that they will be the ones getting screwed even worse than today’s middle-aged people. Then they will look around for a “rich” person to tax and none will be around. They either have to change that system now or live in a country that is much poorer and much less safe.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Worked for me.

Having to slog my way through high-school as my family struggled with all the indignities of the Carter Administration turned me to the right and kept me there.

[ansel12]

In 1968 the Democrats won 47% of the (21) to 29 year old vote, in 1972, they won 46% of the 18 to 29 age group, in 1976, after Watergate, and with the weak, moderate (and under suspicion) Ford, against what appeared to be a social conservative Democrat with a strong military back ground, the Democrats picked up 51% of the 18 to 29 year old vote.

In 1980 Democrats got 44% of that age group, 1984-40%, 1988-47%.

It wasn’t until 1992 that the under 30 age group became a Democrat voter group, George W. did get 46% and 45% though.

The 66% that Obama won, is unprecedented and doesn’t bode well for the future.

[ansel12]

There was a time not so long ago when the young seemed destined to be liberal forever. Americans in their teens and 20s were to the left of their elders on social issues. They worried more about poverty. They voted strongly Democratic. In retrospect, we refer to this period as the 1960s, and it didn’t last long, let alone forever. Less than a generation after young people were marching for civil rights and against the Vietnam War, they voted overwhelmingly for Ronald Reagan.

This myth making by the left never ends, we conservatives wish the under 30 vote was what it used to be.

[nascarnation]

I hope this is true, but I’m dubious.

Remember that a huge percentage have been given a progressive education by teachers who got a progressive education themselves.

My perception is that the typical millennial knows more about “climate change” than the US Constitution.

[GeronL]

They don’t.

[Moonman62]

Conservatives already outnumber liberals by a large margin. The problem is both political parties and most of the media despise conservative values.