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rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 11/6/2008
Losing the Youth Vote
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Patrick Ruffini has the grisly details . Greg Mankiw ventures a conjecture : Why? I am not enough of a political scientist to be sure, but recent conversations I have had with some Harvard undergrads have led me to a conjecture: It was largely noneconomic issues. These particular students told ...
The Straight-Ticket Youth Vote
thenextright.com - 11/6/2008
The Straight-Ticket Youth Vote
— thenextright.com — As a sidenote to Obama's 66-32 blowout among 18-29 voters, check out how these same voters voted... for the House. Not much different: 63-34. So, in casting an identity politics vote for Barack Obama, a hip young (by political standards) African ... (more) The Straight-Ticket Youth Vote

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The Youth Vote and the GOP
gregmankiw.blogspot.com - 11/6/2008
The Youth Vote and the GOP
— gregmankiw.blogspot.com — This picture from Andrew Gelman is striking. It suggests that the major difference between the past two... elections and this one was the youth vote. In this election, the young left the Republican party in droves. Why? I am not enough of a political ... (more) The Youth Vote and the GOP

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The Democratic attack on the youth vote
hotair.com - 11/13/2008
The Democratic attack on the youth vote
— hotair.com — Rahm Emanuel’s remarks about the civilian defense corps shows a blindness to a potential political cliff that... fellow community organizers are about to lead Democrats over like lemmings. The danger here isn’t that the Obama administration ... (more) The Democratic attack on the youth vote

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The blue map
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... claims they were worth 72 electoral votes to The One this time around and five percent to Democratic House candidates. How to turn that around will be at the top of the agenda at the powwows among conservative leaders going on now and in the coming months. If you think going to back to Reaganite basics is the key, fair enough, but aside from social security and abortion, it’ll take an awful lot of persuading . [image]

Over-reading The Tea Leaves
Riehl World View — You may catch a conversation going on around the blogs about the Youth Vote. here more here Make of it what you want. Obama got a slightly larger segment of the Youth vote out. That isn't to be ignored. But pointing out that they appear to be more liberal (I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!) as a rationale to significantly change a small government, solid values party is a load of bunk, seen by people who want to see it for their own reasons. What happens when they get older, start earning a paycheck and paying taxes and ...

Uh, don’t forget the war, guys…
Sadly, No! — Ross Douthat, Patrick Ruffini, Greg Mankiw and David Frum all ponder why so many of the young’uns (which technically still includes me, even though I’m at the very edge of the 18-29 crowd) voted for Barack Obama. Frum and Mankiw blame the social cons, while Douthat says that economic concerns were far more of a factor. Ruffini seems to think that young people are just stupid and should probably be prevented from voting all together, though I can’t really tell. Here’s something none of them mentioned: our current foreign ...

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