Cue the world’s smallest violin…
Maria Verdugo, a 20-year-old graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, barely remembers the presidential election of 2008 — the one that spawned a youth movement that was singular in its scope and political effectiveness — except for “something about Obama saying we needed a change.”
Ha.
These days, Ms. Verdugo is so busy working to pay off her student loans that she has not decided whether to register “as a Democrat, a Republican or what,” she said.
Ha.
Chad Tevlin, 19, a student trying to pay for college by cleaning portable toilets in South Bend, Ind., cannot recall if he registered to vote at all. “Pointless” is how he describes politics.
Ha.
And Kristen Klenke, a music student in central Michigan, has decided to skip this election altogether. “I know it sounds horrible,” said Ms. Klenke, 20. “But there’s a lot of discouragement going around.”
Ha.
Reality…
In the four years since President Obama swept into office in large part with the support of a vast army of young people, a new corps of men and women have come of voting age with views shaped largely by the recession. And unlike their counterparts in the millennial generation who showed high levels of enthusiasm for Mr. Obama at this point in 2008, the nation’s first-time voters are less enthusiastic about him, are significantly more likely to identify as conservative and cite a growing lack of faith in government in general, according to interviews, experts and recent polls.
Polls show that Americans under 30 are still inclined to support Mr. Obama by a wide margin. But the president may face a particular challenge among voters ages 18 to 24. In that group, his lead over Mitt Romney — 12 points — is about half of what it is among 25- to 29-year-olds, according to an online survey this spring by the Harvard Institute of Politics. And among whites in the younger group, Mr. Obama’s lead vanishes altogether.
Young people are going to trend Democrat, there is not question about that. The smaller that lead is, the better off America is.
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Ha! If it makes your feel better to say Obama’s voters are less energized have at it.
BTW, if Obama voters are less energized why is the gop trying to suppress Obama voters?
Cause they don’t want voter fraud, the easiest way to make sure there is none is to come in to the 21st century and look at IDs.
You have to have ID to register to vote and you have to show ID to vote, there is no voter fraud, so why the ID, who is going to administer it, the DMV? Most importantly how much is it going to cost and who is going to pay for it?
Obama voters are too busy saving for their January 2014 premiums to worry about voting.
The GOP is primarily trying to suppress the cemetary vote.
What cemetery vote Whitey?
What.. Huh……I don’t know what you mean………
Give it a rest already.
Is that your way of saying you don’t know either Whitey?
It’s my way of saying you’re an idiot if you don’t know what I’m talking about. I refuse to believe you’re that stupid, but once again I’ll play along. The cemetary vote = dead people. The state of Florida and a couple of others are trying to purge dead people off their voter registries. Perhaps this is some sort of GOP plot as this is a demographic that Democrats seem to win every year
It’s a brazen lie that the State of Florida and some
Some others are trying to remove dead people from the roles. They are trying to remove blacks, college students, Hispanics, the elderly and disabled from the voting rolls.
And most folks realize when someone is mocking them
The dead that show up to vote in elections…
http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2012/05/16/53000-dead-voters-found-in-florida/
Huh?… What?… I don’t understand.
Consider the source.
Then refute it…
Bush v Gore refutes it.
No, it doesn’t.try again.
Republicans are so busy trying to keep dead from voting they won’t let the living folks vote. Ain’t that a dip?
Keep your dayjob cause you’d never make it as a comedian.
This isn’t about keeping dead people from voting, this is about keeping democrats from voting.
http://www.politicspa.com/turzai-voter-id-law-means-romney-can-win-pa/37153/
That is a distinction without a difference.
Madison County Mississippi in which was discovered that there 450+ people registered to vote that older than 105 years old. In fact the number of registered voters was 123% of the population of the county that was over 18 years old.
Alameda County California, 153 counts of dead people voting in eight elections over ten years.
Dallas County Texas, 6000 dead people still registered, but in particular, Melvin Porter voted in the 2008 democratic primary after he died in January 2007.
Harris County Texas, 4000 dead people on the voter roles
New York, As many as 77,000 dead people on the voter roles and as many as 2,600 of them had voted from the grave.
Voter ID laws would be a great help in preventing people from using the names of the dead to vote. In states that there are no voter ID laws, all you have to know is the name and where they are registered to vote at and you can impersonate and vote for them. There is no check to see if that is indeed the person that is registered to vote.
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Dead_people_voting