COLLEGE STUDENTS MOVING TO KERRY - Huge Gender Gap

[sandersadu]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/21/college.poll/index.html

My friends, this feels like the days before Clinton's blowout. I was in college then, and Clinton got my first vote. We're seeing the beginnings of a Democratic landslide.

Of note: Kerry LEADS men 47-46;

Kerry CRUSHES among women 58-34.

He's got even more support among Battleground College Students. It's over, folks.

[doni_georgia]

1. Just gotta make sure these college students vote

If you live near a college - especially in a battleground state, call up the college Democrats and see if you can help them out!

[sandersadu]

2. Kick!

This important, keep it kicked!

S

[Downtown Hound]

3. Must be all that fancy book larnin'

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[sandnsea]

6. This is interesting

Written in 1989.

"...And why? Because the German working class, in Reich's view, was starved of “orgastic” release and unconsciously yearned for the figure—Hitler—who promised them such release...


The German people did fall for Hitler just as the American people a half century later fell for Reagan. I mean, emotionally fell, as in falling in love. And while a simple orgasm theory certainly fails to account for the emotional appeal of fascism, Reich's theory was in fact anything but simpleminded. We don't have to go into it here, but Reich was trying to say that psychoanalysis should be taken even more seriously than Freud was willing to take it. Retch was holding, essentially, that human history included a drive for what might be called “deep transformative experiences,” that these involve the whole organism, mind and body, and come from the unconscious and can't be understood in ordinary political/economic terms...


This is a well-worn and disastrous path. For however those desires are mobilized, whether by Hitler, Reagan, Oliver North, Lyndon LaRouche, or the New Alliance Party, the result is sectarian and authoritarian. Projected desire of this kind cannot be creatively transformed; it has no recourse but to find an enemy, and no pathway but domination. It charges a politics of hate, and whether against the Father or the siblings is of little matter. At this level, all positions become objectively reactionary..."

http://www.ex-iwp.org/docs/1989/politics_of_therapy_89.htm

[Hog lover]

5. Watch for Bushco to challenge college voters

Many places don't want college students from other counties and states voting where they attend college, and I know some state laws require you to vote where your permanent residence is located. You may be able to register to vote and then be turned away on 11/2.

If anyone has different info, please share with me.

[liberalpragmatist]

7. College Student Casting First Vote Ever For KERRY, right here!

And in a swing(-ish) state too! Missouri.

Okay. So the state's been pretty much conceded to Bush (he kills among rural voters here). But Missouri is ALWAYS close. If we can get a good turnout, Missouri *COULD* go blue.

Also casting a nice vote for Claire McCaskill and for Nancy Farmer, who sadly does not appear likely to make it.

[elperromagico]

8. I've had several conversations with fellow college students.

Fahrenheit 9/11 has had its biggest influence in that age group. It comes up almost any time you talk about Bush. One guy I know is working to get everybody he knows to see that film. And this is not NY or CA; it's Arkansas. These people are embarrassed by Bush and believe we must get him out of office.

If you tell one of them you like their Kerry bumper sticker, their reaction is, "You support Kerry? Are you registered to vote?" This election is important to my generation.

I didn't have these kinds of conversations in 2000. I didn't hear them in 1996. If you walk across campus during the course of a day, sooner or later you'll wander past a conversation about Bush and Kerry... and it's usually not pro-Bush.