Title: ORourke1 Signature
Well, he didn't have my kids,
thankfully, and he doesn't look to get them this time. His college
loan program is woefully inadequate-the AVERAGE savings being $10
a month. If you have a $40K bill, that's chump change.
David
"Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of
what's good for people than people do is a swine."--P. J. O’Rourke
On 10/29/2011 8:17 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Washington Post
Obama and young voters:
Why all the love lost?
Posted by Natalie Jennings
at 04:45
PM ET, 10/28/2011
President Obama’s support among young voters
has dropped 32 percent since 2009, the Fix’s Aaron Blake
wrote Thursday.
How did President Obama’s approval numbers fall so sharply
among a demographic that voted for him in record numbers in
2008? And how can he regain their support in 2012?
We asked Twitter, Facebook and Quora followers to weigh in.
Here is what you had to say.
Quora user Joshua Engel wrote that
“improbably high positives” doomed Obama’s chances of
maintaining support.
The bigger he was, the harder he had to fall.
Approval ratings are potentially misleading because of it:
people opposing Obama from the left, rather than the right,
would be stupid to vote for the candidate from the far
right. They will, however, lead to an enthusiasm gap. It’s
very hard to predict how that will affect the outcome of a
reelection campaign, though I think it’s safe to say that
absolute turnout for him will be lower than last time...
Welcome to politics, kids. Holding up signs is the
fun part. Governing sucks
Twitter user Andrew Kearney had a similar
outlook on younger voters and Obama in 2012
Quora user Robert George wrote:
Like all other voters, young voters are upset that
the economy isn’t doing well and they can’t find jobs. That
is going to reduce his support with all voting groups. But
there doesn’t appear to be any reason to think Obama has
done something special to disappoint young voters at this
point.
And Chris Weigl wrote:
You could attribute individual policies to his
decline, but I don’t think that young people are as
concerned about individual policies as much as they are with
the daunting task that they face in the new American
economy...
Quora respondent Barry Hampe of the Cato
Institute wrote the president lost his cool factor after he
was elected.
Obama was the voice of optimism on the stump. But
since taking office he’s sounded more and more like a not
very interesting professor or, even worse, like America’s
father. Not a lot of appeal for young voters in either of
those personas.
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