Republican Support Collapses Among Youth

[tblue37]

From The Huffington Post:

Republican Support Collapses Among Youth
A new Democracy Corps/Greenberg Quinlan Rosner survey finds young people "profoundly alienated from the Republican party and its perceived values."

Key finding: "Young people react with hostility to the Republicans on almost every measure and Republicans and younger voters disagree on almost every major issue of the day."

In the presidential race, "both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama lead Rudy Giuliani -- the most acceptable of the Republican offerings among youth -- by significant margins. The President’s standing is substantially worse, to the degree that is possible, than we find in the broader electorate. Moreover, the disconnect we see between the Republicans and our nation’s youth runs so deep, that it likely will not only outlive the Bush administration, but potentially haunt the Republicans for many years to come."

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2007/07/27/republican_support_collapses_among_youth.html

Maybe some of them are beginning to realize that they will be stuck with the bill for the Bush administration's looting of our treasury, destruction of our environment, and trashing of our international standing.

[sutz12]

1. It's those evil liberal teachings they learn in public school...

You know, how people are basically in this together and things go better if people help each other, instead of using each other as stepping stones to "personal success."

[Cosmocat]

2. That is the machine's knee jerk reaction ...

you minds, young sane minds, for the most part run counter to the republican BS ... So, like ANYTHING else, they seek to attack it, thus a part of the assult on public education and them there evil liberal college professors ...

[opihimoimoi]

3. Reason and Sanity were found alive and well in Santa Monica...they are OK

[Warpy]

4. Good, about time that happened

We've had a topsy turvy world for far too long, the older boomers being the ones who remember what this country was like before the New Deal got dismantled, wages fell, and the social safety net got shredded and the younger folks who were born after about 1955 believing in all the crap the Reaganites were peddling.

(I'm talking raw statistics, folks, not exceptions)

Living through the regressive swing of the social pendulum has been torture. Knowing there's new generation out there -- finally -- that rejects all the self serving rubbish the Republics have been peddling is the first good sign I've seen in about 38 years.

[redstateblues]

5. Too bad that young people don't vote in large enough numbers

to affect the outcome of elections.

[Palladin]

6. Huff Post is being disingenuous

here. Guiliani does not have the most youth support among the Republicans. That honor has gone to Rep. Ron Paul. The vast majority of Paul's grassroots volunteers are hip intelligent folks 18-34.
You won't hear about it on the MSM. They're a tool for the War Party. Courtiers.