The idiotic Liberal Youth Vote has no money, no job prospects and is living at home. How is that “hope and change” working for you now? I guess not being able to get an interview despite your impressive Sociology/Philosophy/ Women’s Studies/ etc. degrees has a way of making you face reality. The brain dead youth vote of 2008 is reason number 1 why the voting age should be raised to at least 24 (IMHO). I do not think one is qualified to vote until one has actually had to pay bills and taxes or at least went out into the real world. I hope that young people realize that a politician is just a politician and needs to be approached with caution. By the way – Black unemployment rate today is 15.8%.
Note: I did this thread and put it into pending on Tuesday morning and since I found it on www.lucianne.com, I did not hat tip WeaselZippers who did the same story yesterday afternoon.
by Paul Bentley
President Barack Obama famously won the 2008 election on a wave of support from America’s youth.
But any hopes the 49-year-old had of keeping down with the kids appear to have faded – his support from young people is rapidly waning, a poll has found.
And for a man known for his ‘jacket off’ casual style the reason for this slump may be particularly hurtful – students are abandoning the President because they do not think he is cool anymore, it has been claimed.
According to the National Journal’s Ronald Brownstein report, President Obama has dramatically lost support from young people – and particularly young white people – in America since 2008.
His approval rating among those aged 18 to 29 is currently at 56 per cent – a huge fall of ten points since the 2008 exit polls.
And this comes in stark contrast to Obama’s general approval rating levels, which are pretty consistent with those of 2008.
The reason for this sudden drop is because students, who rushed behind the Obama campaign in 2008, no longer think he is cool, according to those at Oberlin College, which is known for its hipster left-wing activism.
Four undergraduate editors at the college newspaper signed an essay bemoaning how apolitical their peers had become,according to the New York Times.
Their argument in their piece, ‘Oberlin-based Perspectives on the Obama Presidency’, was that students had become disenfranchised because they no longer think the President is cool.
The problem is that the real Obama could never live up to the pre-office idea of him, with all his quirks now seen as grating, a political science professor explained.
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Read the rest – Obama loses the youth vote ‘because white students don’t think he’s cool any more’
