Is Obama that bad that the millennials majority may vote Republican next Tuesday?

[theballerFKA Ace]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/major...ry?id=26553815

Says of the millennials who definitely will be voting, they will support a Republican candidate over a Democrat candidate 51% to 47% vice versa. Says 18-29 year old have reliably supported Democrats since 2004, but I find that hard to believe. I doubt the 18-29 group has supported a Republican since MAYBE Reagan.

Obviously Obama ain't running this year but you gotta believe that any "youth" voter voting Republican is really making a statement against Obama right? Why else would the majority of us vote Republican? Maybe a few who are against gun control, immigration amnesty, perhaps a very few on abortion or who planning on becoming self employed in the near future. But the majority???

[Patrick Chewing]

Why so shocked? Why should Millennials automatically vote for Democrats? I think Millennials voted blindly Democratic in the past and they are finally waking up.


The reality still is that the majority of the country is still Conservative, and this includes Conservative Liberals who take issue with Gun Control and abortion.

[KevinNYC]

Or to put it another way do Democrats have trouble turning out the young vote in off-year elections? That answer is yes.

But if you ask if 18-29 year olds if they prefer Democrats or Republicans, they prefer Democrats. See graphs below.

The catch is, if you ask about 18-29 year olds [COLOR="Red"]who definitely will be voting[/COLOR], they will support a Republican candidate over a Democrat candidate that's when you get 51% to 47% result.

From that poll.




The poll also showed there is a difference between the 18-24 year olds and 25-29 year olds. The younger ones are more anti-Obama.

The older ones remember the Bush years better. If you are 29 today, the first year you could vote was 2003 just as the Iraq war was starting.

[KevinNYC]

Says 18-29 year old have reliably supported Democrats since 2004, but I find that hard to believe. I doubt the 18-29 group has supported a Republican since MAYBE Reagan.

Both Bushes got more of the younger vote than Clinton did.

[RoundMoundOfReb]

Racism!

[GimmeThat]

the possibility of the young people who prefers a quiet conservative

perhaps, just a reflection of traumatic experience about politicians in general.

[nathanjizzle]

Politics is dumb. Even the original post is laced with speculation and agenda

[embersyc]

They must be too young to remember how absolutely devastating 8 years of Bush was to the country.

The recovery has been slow, but at least there has been one.

[GimmeThat]

They must be too young to remember how absolutely devastating 8 years of Bush was to the country.

The recovery has been slow, but at least there has been one.

you want to know what happened to the president after the one who wanted to keep the oil/gas price low (which is related to the standard of living) by raising the minimum wage?

the president inherited an economy where the wealth disparity can't necessarily be solved even by raising taxes only on the wealthy.

the president probably had to focus heavily on the middle class and even forget about the poor to a certain extent to even have

"a recovery that has been slow, but at least there has been one"

[Dresta]

They must be too young to remember how absolutely devastating 8 years of Bush was to the country.

The recovery has been slow, but at least there has been one.

The recovery has been so slow that we are already due another downturn (historically) and interest rates haven't even been raised yet.

When even establishment economics editors like Robert Peston are seeing the signs that growth has been anaemic and that there is trouble round the corner you know things aren't good:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29817100

[GimmeThat]

The recovery has been so slow that we are already due another downturn (historically) and interest rates haven't even been raised yet.

When even establishment economics editors like Robert Peston are seeing the signs that growth has been anaemic and that there is trouble round the corner you know things aren't good:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29817100

because bernanke kept saying that the interest rates wouldn't be raised during the beginning of the recession in order to keep the market calm.

there hadn't been someone from the leadership position from the Fed saying that the interest rates will be raised because they think that the recover has been so fragile.

when they should be taking advantages of every downturn in the market since there's been some major growth in % (instead of comparing the DOW point to pre-recession level) of making statements that the interest rates WILL be raised. and who knows, perhaps should have done so DURING a market down turn to make the next growth to be that of more solid.


instead of, of course, another possible down turn without having the interest rates raised.



she probably thought of raising the interest rates all at once to let the market adjust to it, which will then indirectly help achieve the goal of slowing down the market growth in order to avoid another bear market caused directly by the Fed policy.

at least the Fed still have a few tools left to monitor growth.

[NumberSix]

you want to know what happened to the president after the one who wanted to keep the oil/gas price low (which is related to the standard of living) by raising the minimum wage?

the president inherited an economy where the wealth disparity can't necessarily be solved even by raising taxes only on the wealthy.

the president probably had to focus heavily on the middle class and even forget about the poor to a certain extent to even have

"a recovery that has been slow, but at least there has been one"

Why do you think wealth disparity is something that needs to be "solved"?

[MadeFromDust]

Yes. He's that bad.

[Godzuki]

he's so bad, and in general Dem foreign policy is so soft/weak, as well as some Domestic issues are so politically correct unrealistic with Dem stances, i'll probably be voting Republican next election. and i've despised the Republican party on so many levels for years~

i'll definitely never be voting for a black Prez ever again, either

[MavsSuperFan]

its a midterm election, young people were not going to have much of an impact anyways.