gregmankiw.blogspot.com - 11/6/2008
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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 scientist to be sure, but recent conversations ...
thenextright.com - 11/6/2008
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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 ...
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The Straight-Ticket Youth Vote
balloon-juice.com - 11/7/2008
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balloon-juice.com —
Jon Henke, writing at the Next Right, has
the following to say : The problem is a...
movement that plays small-ball and cedes responsibility for infrastructure to business interests, leadership that rewards those who make friends rather than waves, ...
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Henke on the Rot
spectator.org - 11/3/2008
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spectator.org —
ALL IN THE FAMILY Senior aides to Sen.
Barack Obama and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick were aware...
that Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango , was living in the United States illegally and in a South Boston public-housing project, and were ...
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Aunt Zeituni's Protectors
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The Straight-Ticket Youth Vote
The Next Right —
... and if it was Hillary, you'd have seen a similar phenomenon with women voters. So, simply transposing 2004 figures onto 2008 isn't the right baseline. But this is a dramatic statement nonetheless. Obama has reshaped the electorate. And it's been only partially through new voter registration. He has gobbled up every last, existing young voter and African American (FTW, I get the distinct sense that Condi Rice too voted for Obama).
For more in uplifting news, don't miss Greg Mankiw.
Losing the Youth Vote
Ross Douthat —
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 me they preferred the lower tax, more limited government,
freer trade views of McCain, but they were voting for Obama on the
basis of foreign policy and especially social issues like abortion. The
choice of a social conservative like Palin as veep really turned them ...
Does The GOP Need To Get More Youth-Friendly?
Say Anything —
Looking at this graphic, it clearly does:
Now, part of the youth vote going for Obama probably has to do (unfortunately) with image. Obama was the young, vibrant, hip candidate. McCain was the old, crusty candidate. That’s unfair, of course, but image is an important part of politics. It’s not a good thing, but there it is.
The other part, I think, is that the GOP needs to lose this image of being a stodgy organization of party poopers. That doesn’t mean ...
President-elect Barack Obama
Winds of Change.NET —
... Just to lead off with something: Barack Obama won the youth vote for the Democratic party. Here's a graph showing the collapse of the Republican youth vote in 2008, compared to 2004 and 2000. (link) Of course the converse of this collapse is Democratic success, and Barack Obama is the cause of that new success. ...
Wishful Thinking?
TigerHawk —
On Greg Mankiw's Blog So what does the Republican Party need to do to get the youth vote back? If these Harvard students are typical (and perhaps they are not, as Harvard students are hardly a random sample), the party needs to scale back its social conservatism. Put simply, it needs to become a party for moderate and mainstream libertarians. The actual Libertarian Party is far too extreme in its views to attract these students. And it is too much of a strange fringe group. These students are, after all, part of the establishment. But a reformed Republican Party could, I think, ...
The blue map
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... function of the candidates each cycle (each state is comparatively redder now than it was in 1996 when Clinton crushed Dole), with the lesson here being not to get your hopes up when you’re running against a guy with $650 million to spend, especially when you’re saddled with a president whose approval rating is in the 20s. But when you can drive coast to coast and never enter a district where the GOP picked up votes, it seems … noteworthy. If that’s not depressing enough for you, see Greg Mankiw’s chart of youth voters. ...
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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msnbc.msn.com 11/7/2008 — Youth turnout appears to be exceeding 2004 levels, which was itself a year with a big surge in voters ages 18 to 29. Young voters preferred Barack Obama by a wide margin, experts say.
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redstate.com 11/10/2008 — Looking back in order to look forward.
In the aftermath of the utter failure of the McCain campaign,
and the Republicans in general, to come with and understandable and
comprehensive plan of how we will govern, I decided to look back on
to the ...
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GOP faces identity crisis in months ahead —
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NEW YORK (CNN) – The Republican Party faces a long list of problems with no clear national leader and an identity crisis that will play out during a period of good ...
U.S. Troops Too Busy for Vote Returns —
Wash Post Elections 11/6/2008
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