Could America’s ‘Miserable’ Youth Decide the 2012 Election?
- Posted on January 18, 2012 at 6:57pm by
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With 23.7 million American workers either unemployed or underemployed and the markets continuing to hide in the shadow of the eurozone crisis, the health of the U.S. economy leaves much to be desired.
It appears unlikely that the U.S. economy will improve anytime soon and many Americans have become impatient with the Obama administration. However, perhaps more frustrated than any other group are voters ages 18-29 — the same demographic that overwhelmingly supported the president in 2008.
And why shouldn’t they be angry?
Considering the fact that youth unemployment is currently 17.4 percent, average graduating student debt is $26,300, and national debt per capita is $46,900, according to a recent study put out by the Young America’s Foundation (YAF) called the Youth Misery Index (YMI), it’s no wonder that America’s youth appears to be nervous, angry and scared.
The Youth Misery Index
“Young people are battling one of the worst job markets in the last century, and hundreds of billions of federal ‘stimulus’ dollars have failed to revive the labor market,” the YMI claims. “Thanks to big government and the Obama administration, young people are miserable.”
This fear and uncertainty could play a major role in the upcoming 2012 election. Poor economic conditions and failed policies have already affected the president’s approval ratings and a sustained lack of support could affect him at the voting booth.
“There’s a huge correlation between support for the Obama administration and these numbers,” Ron Meyer, YAF spokesman and co-author of the YMI, told The Blaze in an interview. “Since Obama’s inauguration, the administration’s approval rating has dropped 30 percent — down from the high 70s to now 48 (46 according to some polls).”
However, some analysts also believe President Obama’s approval rating has been affected by more than just a bad economy.
“It’s been a plummet. And I think it’s for two reasons: honesty and the economy,” Meyer said. “Young people think the Obama administration has been dishonest with its policies. A lot of liberal, the young left, are disappointed that he hasn’t lived up to his lofty rhetoric.”
Watch YAF spokesman Ron Meyer explain the YMI via Fox and Friends:
“Young people are naturally skeptical of the government — especially about transparency and corruption — that’s why they’re so apathetic. But they gave President Obama a chance. Frankly, I think young people think the Obama administration made it worse,” Meyer said.
Many critics believe that a lack of jobs, combined with a feeling of disillusionment in the political system, has led to anger and resentment among younger voters.
“Young people know they’re angry and that’s the only thing they know for certain. They know that they are sending resumes into space and they don’t know if anybody’s even looking at them or if they’re going straight into the shredder,” Hannah Jackman, Program Director of The National Journalism Center, a training program for aspiring young journalists, told The Blaze.
“They don’t know how to vent their frustration so they channel it at corporations and think that capitalism has failed them. The truth is they should be marching on the White House,” Jackman added.
This anger has translated into not just a resentment of “big business” but also a noticeable decline in youth support for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. If these reports are accurate, and young voters are indeed abandoning President Obama en masse, then the implications for the 2012 election could be enormous.
Recall that in 1980, President Ronald Reagan was able to win the White House with strong support from voters ages 18-29.
“Reagan brought an entire generation to the Republican Party in 1980, and in 1984 he won the youth vote by 20 percent,” writes Margaret Hoover in the Wall Street Journal. The youth vote, historically pro-Democrat, populated Reagan rallies with cries of “Four more years!” according to PBS’ “Reagan” history series.
In 2008, President Obama won a full 68 percent of the youth vote, the biggest in American presidential history. And this was no small thing. It can easily be argued that youth vote guaranteed him the presidency.
So what does the current state of the U.S. economy, a loss of youth support for President Obama’s re-election campaign and the Youth Misery Index mean? It could mean that the youth voting bloc is up for grabs and the entire 2012 election is contingent on whoever wins their support.
Should the DNC or GOP decide to woo the youth vote, they would do well to address the issues raised in the Youth Misery Index.
“Young America’s Foundation is the only group talking about these things and saying, ‘Okay, young people, you’re in the worst economic situation you’ve ever had, that we’ve had in the last 100 years, and here’s why: it’s big government, it’s the Obama administration, it’s these policies.’ No one else is doing that and that’s sad,” Meyer said.
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The Obama re-election campaign has already begun work on reestablishing its support base with the youth vote. By advertising initiatives such as the “Summer Jobs+” program, and by using information gathered through National Campus Leadership Council, the White House may be able to accomplish this.
What would the GOP need to do to win the youth vote?
“If conservatives propose a pro-freedom agenda that give’s the people the power—and if they stay principled—then we will pick up youth support. That’s what Reagan did: he had a principled stance on a lot of issues and young people turned out for him in huge numbers. And, his principled policies worked. During the Reagan years, youth unemployment drastically declined as his policies reinvigorated America’s economy. If the recipe works, stick with it,” Meyer said.
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Comments (181)
FreedomPurveyor
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:48pmI would like to see the youth misery index compared to the total percentage of youth who consider themselves liberal. Something tells me there is a correlation; liberalism breeds misery.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:01pmI would to see a Poll upon… How many of them would Kill their Parents (Destroy their Nation; Destroy their own Economic System)…
Report Post »LibertarianRight
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:04pmHi. I’m miserable under this load of BS the government has saddled me with – both right and left. I am also a capitalist and a libertarian, who believes strongly in free markets, while a current college student. Your baseless assertions need to leave, as your demonization of the youth as wacked-out liberals and that’s why they are miserable is just pushing them away from listening to people like me, who are often associated with morons like you.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:19pmI doubt many students, given the choice between President Obama and a republican challenger would vote for the republican. But wait, I have an idea! Let’s require that people of this age group have a state issued ID. That will obviously help the republicans, by eliminating some of the, you know, others…
Report Post »WAKEUPUSA2012
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:27pmIm somewhat miserable. Im 22 and go to school, I have a job. But what I see is pain in the future. Not because of my personal life. Because of the place America is heading. Because the generations before us have let slime ball, soul sucking, evil people rule over us. They have literally planed the downfall of freedom and peace. They want to control every aspect of our lives.
That makes me sad.
America had better wake up and see what is happening.
God Bless
Report Post »Mizurax
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:38pmLet me tell you something. I just turned 30 this year, so technically I’m not “youth” according to this. But I’m miserable because the older generations absolutely dropped the ball on their watch. The older generations sat around complacent while government expanded and expanded, inflation skyrocketed, and greed took over.
The older generations completely failed. They sat around saying, “Well there’s nothing you can do about it, so why even pay attention anymore?” I can‘t tell you the number of people I’ve talked to from my parent’s generation that are completely clueless. They have no idea how anything works.
So I don’t want to hear it. You can blame the youth all you want. And I agree that there are way too many stupid liberal kids. But don‘t pretend that your generation didn’t fail. It did. Miserably.
Report Post »Luke611
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:13pmThey were just as miserable in 08 and thus we have Obama.
Certainly a magnificant few teenagers or early tweens study the issues, they subject themselves to sound bites and mob-mentality.
We need to change the laws that enable voting after participation in a VOTERS EDUCATION CLASS, or simply disallow any voting privilages until your 25 or OLDER.
Amazing how liberalism recedes with work ethics
Report Post »Komponist-ZAH
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:15pm“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things—and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning…. All their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything; they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.”
—Aristotle, Rhetoric
JZS—
Are you looking for the term “fraudulent voters”, or “voting dead”?
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:41pmJZS
I’m not usually one to point out spelling, or grammatical errors, but in the first line of your post, you misspelled “indoctrinees”
And I’ll one up you on the ID requirement.
Let’s have an IQ requirement.
Now be careful with your response JZS.
Last time we traveled this road, your response didn’t come across quite right.
Remember?
Report Post »Candertwin
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 1:46amI feel bad for the voting, conservative youth who are not responsible for our country’s political situation and did not vote for Obama. Yet they still have to pay for these progressive policies and the debt for the rest of their lives.
I know many of you think the youth will destroy the country, but what about the older people who put the country in its current state? Lets just all focus on the solutions and quell progressivism in both parties.
Report Post »Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 6:29amthe youth are Miserable because right now in America 30% of the people under age 23 have been ARRESTED and Satan or Um want’s to make it 60 %
Parents and non-parents alike might be shocked to learn a new study estimates that roughly 1 in 3 U.S. youths will be arrested for a non-traffic offense by age 23 — a “substantively higher” proportion than predicted in the 1960s.
The study, posted online by the journal Pediatrics, shows that between about 25% to 41% of 23-year-olds have been arrested or taken into police custody at least once for a non-traffic offense. If you factor in missing cases, that percentage could lie between about 30% and 41%.
Report Post »http://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20111219/study-nearly-1-in-3-us-youths-will-be-arrested-by-age-23 we live in a police state Ron Paul 2012 let’s decriminalize being young in America.
Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 6:33amRon Paul wants to DE CRIMINALIZE drugs that does not have to make them legal.
Report Post »it use to be you got a 50 dollar fine in California for possession of I believe less than an ounce
but now we are putting kids in prison for that.
What happens to them when they get out and can’t get a job ?
What would you do ?
thekuligs
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:07am“I would like to see the youth misery index compared to the total percentage of youth who consider themselves liberal.”
No kidding! I’m 28 and I consider myself happy. Of course I have no debt, because I don’t believe in it; and I stay home with my children because I don’t think other people should raise them. The only negative spot in my life is the fact that my country seems determined to flush itself down the crapper, and the world is a MESS! Though I wonder how many people in this study think they government CAN make them happy.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:55amThanks for drawing attention to another Koch brothers organization. Perhaps one should look at the economy Bush Jr. handed the President to fully understand the current predicament. I think most educated young people understand who put us in this situation and what factors are holding back growth. As for the uneducated… well they will be swayed by misleading facts and analysis like this. Particularly when presented as legitimate.
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 10:21amjzs: Do you take stupid pills or do you come by it naturally? Please try to explain with logic (oops, Bad word for liberals) how requiring an ID to vote is any different than requiring and ID to get a driver’s license, cash a check, get on an airplane or any of the other things that require ID. You liberal ass clowns just want to be ale to have your illegals and dead people vote for the jackass party.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 10:27amIf the “Miserable Youth” will realize that we are where we are because of the Socialistic policies we have instituted and vote to elect patriotic Americans who believe in the Constitution and will free businesses from the insane regulatory web the government has created, then that will be a positive step toward reducing their plight.
Unfortunately, so many of them have been schooled in Liberal, Socialist and even Communist thought that the votes they cast will only further the misery they claim they feel. Businesses who are taxed to death and overly regulated by Washington cannot and will not hire employees.
These poor misguided dweebs need to face the facts.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 11:36am@JROOK
Specifics tiger, specifics. Not just a liberal rah rah speech.
Sounds to me like you are equating education / IQ with rationality.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 5:10pmMy 3 sons and their wifes(all early 30′s) talked a good battle and convinced myself and wife to go for the “Hope & Change.” Well all 6 of them and us will be voting Republican(Can registered Democrats even do that) for first time. The president has affected us all but will probably still get the youths vote. All you do is promise the world and then blame it on the other party when it doesn’t happen. I think there will be a national emergency a few days before the election and it won’t happen for the first time in our history. Don’t laugh – Obama and his wife are both lawyers.
Report Post »mck05002
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:34amI’m 24, so I definitely fall into the age range mentioned in this study. I wouldn’t categorize myself as miserable, but my husband will be done with school fairly soon, and we are extremely nervous about finding a job because everyone wants “experience”. We obviously don’t have that experience. Please be careful to not lump all youth into the “mindless, liberal, lazy, spoiled category. My husband works his butt off to work, go to school, and spend time with our family. But we are frustrated with what is going on in the government. Almost all of our friends are in the same boat, and they are frustrated too. We are also scared of what is going to happen to this country. We want something different. And by that I mean we don’t want to same old politicians with the same old lines. And before you bash my generation, remember that your generation got us into this mess. My husband and I are voting for Ron Paul, so are almost all the people we know. We are not “crazy” either. Almost every young person we talk to loves Ron Paul.(He also consistently gets over 50% of the youth vote in polls) So if the GOP wants the youth vote…nominate Ron Paul and you’ll have all the youth votes you want.
Report Post »floridabeeker
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 3:12pmI see about 70 percent Latinos in FL h s. White will be the miniorities unless we stop aborting our offspring
Report Post »klausefluoride
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:24pmI would like to see the “Youth Misery Index” of other countries… Guess how much debt the average German or Norwegian student graduates with? Guess what their unemployment rates are?
If anything, comparing systems and results would advocate more socialism- not less.
Report Post »BlackCrow
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:46pmHow‘s that hopey changey thing workin’ for ya’?
Report Post »cosette
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:37pm@ Blackcrow- You took the words right out of my mouth! I am actually enjoying their misery. Sounds cruel? Maybe. But experience , as they say, is the best teacher. Their youthful flirtation with socialism , may be a painful lesson, but an important one. Hopefully they will use their intellect instead of their emotions and make an intelligent choice before they cast their next vote.
Report Post »Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 6:34amI call it Hope and Cheney
Report Post »George Patton
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:08amTheir youthful flirtation with socialism in 08 will most likely not result in a learning experience and a rejection of socialism, but instead they, like the occupy morons, believe the failure was not in socialism but in not having a large enough dose of it. The youth will be duped again.
Report Post »neverfinal
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:04amI say that young and old generations need to vote with intelligence and take back the greatness of America. The pure lies and deceit from all sides of our previous government must be stopped. The problem is that we trusted in them. We all know now that the only way is to take them all out of office one by one and replace them with true Constitutional Restoring Americans. Most of all never to give trust in a government again. Liberalism/Marxism always leads to Communism. The Communist thinkers will never go away and always return with more force, so we must remind every future generation against this evil force. It is up to all of us to be constant and continuous watch dogs for our freedom for all of time, now and forever to come.
Report Post »We all want freedom. This election is to free us and let us all work together to rebuild this mess. United we stand, divided we fall. Don’t play into their evil hands, by letting them race bait or generation bait, and divide us. It will take every one of us to join hands or they will win. Then all that will be left is blood shed.
I see how in my own family that the youth blames us and we blame them. It is all of our faults and we all need to unite and correct it. If we divide our family ties, then they win. This has been their plan all along. The children think the parents are stupid and the parents can’t believe the ignorance of their children. This has been the goal of the communist take over of education, it is working.
Paul -Indiana
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:02pmFor those who think that obama was elected by a majority, listen up. There was a 58% turnout of registered voters in the 2008 election. Of that group, 52% voted for obama. That computes to 30% of registered voters voting for obama. The only reason we got saddled with hope-and-change is because there was a poor turnout. Next time, please vote. It doesn’t matter how much money is spent on campaigns, but only upon the peoples’ VOTE.
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:22pmThese young voters know not what they know. They know what they are told.
Report Post »cous1933
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:39pmThe same could be said of most voters in America. That’s why the Republicans got McCain in 08 and will probably get McCained again this year.
Report Post »When the Progressives took over America in 1913, their plan was to control what people “know” – via control of the media and education at all levels. They succeeded and we have been governed by Progressives in both parties ever since. They lead the public to think (or should I say “know”) that there is a difference between the R‘s and the D’s so that sides can be taken and we can pretend that we have a choice, but the fact is that both parties are progressive, statist, big-government, big-spending monstrosities. I doubt that the youth is much more unaware than any other partisan voter.
cous1933
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:50pm* To be historically accurate, we did have a short break from progressive governance from 1923 to 1929 when Calvin Coolidge reduced governments interference in the economy and stayed out of foreign affairs that didn’t concern us, and America experienced true prosperity during his term in office.
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:52pmRepublicans got McCain in 2008 because Mike Huckabee refused to leave the race when it was obvious that he wasn’t going to win. He stayed in the race solely to prevent Romney from winning, as he split the conservative vote with Romney.
Romney learned his lesson, and realized that instead of trying to fight for the conservative vote, he can just let his opponents characterize him as the moderate. He gets the moderate vote, the others split the conservative vote, and he wins. Brilliance.
Report Post »LovinUSA
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:05pmI guess! Now they are deep in debt paying for these slobs that are teaching them BS Crap in colleges and these kids have to pay for being brain washed into socialism.
Report Post »cous1933
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:09pmFreedompurveyor,
Yes, brilliance – we get another progressive.
Report Post »cous1933
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:14pmPurveyor,
see here
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oahbYGxH6c0
GhostofThomasJefferson
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:15pmHave some faith in your tormented and miserable youth, America.
Not all of them want gifts from their government.
In fact, some of them wish to give a gift to you: a true constitutionalist, named Ron Paul.
Report Post »antiencenom
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:28pmThe constitution won’t mean anything if we allow Isreal to be driven into the sea, ghost
ashestoashes
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:36pm@ANTI ENCENOM God has plans for Israel..Read ZECH 12 13 and 14 .. God Himself gathers the nations to go against Israel..that is for judgement against those nations..Then Jesus steps in to save them and they realize that they pierced their own God. But only one third will remain in Him and two thirds get destroyed,,t‘s all God’s plan..IF you believe the Bible…then you have to believe that.. the Messianic Jews are the ones who will be saved.
Report Post »circleDwagons
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:38pmhey Antie. don’t you believe in GOD? let israel take care of israel and America take care of America
Report Post »the youths of America are free to join the israeli army if they wish
LibertarianRight
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:06pm“The constitution won’t mean anything if we allow Isreal to be driven into the sea”
I assume you think that it was meaningless until post-WWII, then? And once we start WWIII to “protect” Israel (a nation that, according to the Bible and its own leaders, needs no protection from us) then it will be full of meaning? That sounds incredibly stupid.
Report Post »antiencenom
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:22pmAnd when they (muslimes,and antichristers)kill all the jews,
Report Post »I dought they will come to push America into the sea.
Ok you paulies won that one
OklahomaBound
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 12:46amYou mean the slacker youth that want to sit home and smoke pot without laws that give the evil police the power to arrest them because crazy Uncle Paul legalized drugs? That upstanding youth? The ones you see at OWS with their faces covered with either a bandana or a “V” mask because they are PauIt@rd anarchist destroying peoples property as they blame evil banks and corporations for their plight rather than their own ineptitude? That upstanding youth? Any kid supporting Dr. Seuss Paul is just as much a threat to this nations future as the socialst kids on the left, quite frankly the two groups (PauIt@rds & Libt@rds) hold about 90% of their platforms in common.
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 4:58am@Anti Encinom
Israel was bought and paid for in 1828 by the Rothchilds, when they established ‘reform Judeaism’. Israel today is not Jacob of the bible, but it’s named that way to mislead you and others like you, that perpetuate Israel as a victim state.
Seriously… who cares about the synagogue of Satan?
Report Post »USPATRIOT101
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 2:31pmUniformed youth gave us obama last time. Save your gifts and learn from those who have lived life beyond bong hits and playstation.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:58pmOklahoma, When you spread media lies, I have to call you out. Stop coming on here bashing Paul with your lies and inuendos. Paul has never said he wants to legalize drugs of any kind, but that the Federal government should stop the war on drugs policy that costs billions of dollars and is not effective. Leave thes issues for each state through the states constituents to decide on what is legal and what is not. I doubt that voting drugs legal would be an easy thing to accomplish, but medicinal use of marijuana is something that can help some and I do not see a problem with that, and marijuana would not be legal for others to buy, sell or use. It would be at the bottom of the police concern and less people would be arrested for using it. Heroin, Meth, Cocaine, LSD and hard drugs like that would never be legalized or allowed for medical purposes. Get real man.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:14pmYeah, and what’s their answer to the problem? Obama? That ought to work out.
Report Post »TennesseeConservative
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 5:20amThere are some youth posters here who get it. We the older generation, which I am part of. Have let this government spin out of control. You see young people, we believed the ********* they taught us in school, we believed the ******** the media heaped on our heads. Decide for yourselves!!! Freedom is worth fighting for, and it is not free. You have to fight for it. Thats why no matter what bunghole wants to pontificate, I will vote for Ron Paul. Yes some things he says scares me, but I am ready for real hope and change. Even if it cost me. Why? Because I want my children and Grand children to be free. Not live on Obama’s democratic plantation. Do a little digging yourselves.
Report Post »GhostofThomasJefferson
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:14pmHave a little more faith in your youth, America. Not all of them want gifts from the government.
They’ve got a true constitutionalist in mind and his name is Ron Paul.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:00pmBernanke’s worst nightmare: Ron Paul ? Last Nov. Dr Ron became the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy. But like always the guy is a zero! Just like his 30yrs in office, leadership ability = 0 Dear Bots: my question is, what makes you think this 30yr government hack could change a thing? Based on what? Talk?
Report Post »LibertarianRight
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:09pmI see. So what you are suggesting, Republicorp, is that we elect a Progressive, because although nearly everything they have done and want to do is bad for the country and unconstitutional, at least they get results!? That has got to be the stupidest shite I have ever heard.
Report Post »Norm D. Plume
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:13pmThe veto pen.
Report Post »spankadonkey
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:46pmRight on, REBUB. How the Paulbutz can support an aging failure is beyond comprehension. A bigger FRAUD than R Paul is hard to find. What a guy.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:50pmLIBERTARIANRIGHT Hide/Ignore or spin Ron Paul’s congressional record of 23 Years in Congress, creating 620 bills of which 4 made it to the floor and only one became law.
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 5:02amSince when does it take only ONE congressman to pass a bill….
All you people want to say Paul is a ‘failure’, where the failures I see are the other 434 members of Congress. Sure, it’s easy to call it that, when your colleagues are so far in the pockets of the lobbyists and the philanthropists that they can’t see the forest for the trees….
Report Post »cosette
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:19am@ Ghost- The youth of America voted 68% for Obozo.What does that tell you? It tells me that they are easily lead, subject to “star” power, media influence and peer pressure. They have little if any real life experience and not even a rudimentary knowledge of the constitution. I would not trust them to select my produce, much less my president. Any faith I had in the youth, as a group, has dissipated considerably since I’ve witnessed the disaster their last choice has been. I would be in favor of raising the voting age to 30.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:15pmRepublicorp, Yeah, 620 bills to try and bring back Constitutional principles, which the Progressives in Congress do not want. If his bills would have passed, we probably would not be in the mess we are in right now.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:12pmWhen I was 18, the first prez I voted for was Ronald Reagan. I was enlightened as to what Carter was all about and knew he had to go. But I was 14, then. 4 years later, I pulled the Reagan lever and proudly. I know my kids are aware of liberal stupidity, the ‘paul bearers’ and the truth. My 18 year old is voting this year and is fervently against Obama, because he wants a future –not four more years of frustration. Smart kid.
Report Post »nomnomnom
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:17pmIt’s four more years of the same thing if you vote either way.
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:48pmTrollinginthemorning
Can you not post without taking a poke at Paul? Your Buddies, Rush, Sean, little mark, “nnelG” and the 2 other stooges are driving the Paulist away from the Party. I’m starting to get the feeling that they all want Obama to win. I’m sure a Obama win would be better for business for them. Maybe this will help.
Senator Jim Demint – GOP Should Listen To Ron Paul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJKt6Ocnivg
Palin: GOP better not marginalize Ron Paul and his supporters
http://www.therightscoop.com/palin-gop-better-not-marginalize-ron-paul-and-his-supporters/
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:02pmRon Paul Letter to the GOP
Report Post »“I want to totally disassociate myself from the policies that have given us unprecedented deficits, massive monetary inflation, indiscriminate military spending, an irrational and unconstitutional foreign policy, zooming foreign aid, the exaltation of international banking, and the attack on our personal liberties and privacy,” he wrote in a letter offering advice to the Republican party: not a letter about the Obama administration — a letter about the Reagan administration. So Paul would have kept the Soviet Union intact.
Paul isn’t a conservative
KAdams
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 5:05amNo, Paul is an American. All you other warmongers can go live in Israel, or something. You’ll fit right in.
Report Post »USPATRIOT101
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 2:42pmTron be careful, you will be the recipient of some nasty name calling by the p-bots on here. i.e. neocon, warmonger, military industial complex supporter, rino, progressive on and on . They use the same words ust jazz up the paragraph a bit. If you might have leaned towards Ron, after listening to these guys, you’ll want nothing to do with him.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:12pmOMG Beckett ate my comment, that’s a first, burp!
Report Post »Ok, I’ll go simple for you Beckett.
All I said was that the republicans need to control the message to get the most out of the youth vote. They can do this by fully exposing Omama both as a socialist utopian and on his track record.
I concluded by saying unless they do this, Obama will win.
Is that postable Beckett Adams?
sndrman
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:05pmi have been under emplyed now for 3 yrs. you have no idea what i’m losing all the way around.i would leave a job to get a better one with higher pay but that has coem to a stop….. don’t worry the dnc,white house and the socialist media are working on a plan to repeatedly blame republicans over and over and over with the rino’s helping the media and our republican leaders high fiving b. HUSSAIN o. to help him get re-elected so we can have even higher unemplyment, so we can have more gov’t control. the kids will be tricked by snoop dippty doo,pee duffy colms, the hollywood left,the rino‘s the black churches will preach democrats talking points and have voter registration the whole while the republicna sit on thier hand and hope they don’t have to defend or protect AMERICA or thie constuints….so this is where AMERICA is today….
Report Post »mcgrawactor1
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:01pmOh, Miserable Youth, you are not our future if you sabotage the country by putting Obama back in power. Wake up! and smell the Starbucks. You are supposed to be our hope, not our impediment to ousting this charlatan from office. Think of your futures, if you don’t care about the present. You will pay for your mistakes, just as we have and are paying for liberal leanings left-over from the 60s. Help us get back on track!!
Report Post »nomnomnom
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:18pmBack on track to where?
Report Post »LibertarianRight
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:14pmNomNomNom:
To Fascism from people like Romney and Santorum – it’s WAY better than the Socialism/Communism of the Obama led Democrats! And you have to reject the “Paulbots” and their “is it constitutional” nonsense, or you aren’t a real Fascist….. er, I mean “conservative”.
These pseudo-Fascist “conservatives” are not any better than Obama. They disagree only on HOW to use vast unconstitutional and totalitarian power. They do not want to repudiate any of it. If the country does not elect someone with a record of FOLLOWING THE CONSTITUTION, and soon, the country will fall off the edge into one totalitarian system or the other – and once the jack boot is around your neck, it doesn’t matter if it is the right or left foot.
Report Post »conbones
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:26pmYou older folks speak as if you had nothing to do with it.
Report Post »Social security started before i was born.
The people who are ruining the country are products of the
baby boomer era. I didnt vote for Obama i was working on patriot Rig #3
in new mexico and new exactly what was in store and sure enough not long after
that Im Looking for a job then eventualy a place to live.
Who should i be mad at? #1The FED gov. #2 progresivism #3 the media, #4and stupid American sheeple #5 Soros, google soros and that is all
Mr Galt
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 12:29am@CONBONES
We didn’t all have “something to do with it”. I’m middle aged and actually wanted to opt-out of Social Security when it was still possible and my father talked me out of it. I was too young to disregard his advice. Despite paying into that system for years, I will likely only get a fraction of it back (if any). I can proudly say, I’ve been fighting Communism and Socialism since the sixth grade. So kindly do not lump us all into the same bin. Not all of us are morons, and not all of us waited to clue in before it was too late. Glenn and most of the people on this site, are late-comers. We few voices in the wilderness could have really used the help when it still mattered. It doesn’t any more.
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 5:15am@Conbones:
Actually, the people that are ruining us are people that are behind the scenes, and see the GOP/Demicraps for what they are: tools. Just like they see you as nothing more than tools. Those-in-charge don’t care about money. They already own it all. They want control. They want you to keep working for them. If you don’t, you can die, and it matters naught to them. Fertilizer for the fields. They have their own agenda, and too bad for you, there’s no part written in it for you. You people had better wake up to what’s really happening…. before it’s too late and the fluoride has burnt out your lower brain lobes. ‘Lazy youth’ isn’t lazy on purpose…. Beware the zombie apocalypse… you don‘t have to be ’dead’ to be a zombie.
Report Post »boundforglory
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:44pmI hope the youth understand that they are not alone, we older people are fed up with the fed also! Having a christian revival with todays youth envolved would be awesome. This country needs to get back to God and the bible and then this country would change for the better!
Report Post »In detroit
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:54pmAbsolutely correct you are a wise and a non coward God will bless you , Dumbo has come out and that the keystone pipline project wont create the jobs that exstending unemployment Benefits will very sad who are so called president is
Report Post »momrules
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:41pmAnother reason that Obama won’t take a chance on losing this election.
He lied to everyone and the young ones were not wise enough to see through him. If he has lost them, the independents and some of the Democrats we had better all be prepared for major voter fraud or something even worse.
Report Post »momprayn
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:36pmFrom what I see, the youth are miserable spiritually and emotionally also. It’s rumored in “Christendom” that there is a youth spiritual “revival” (“Christian”) coming….Don’t know the numbers of course, but don‘t think they’d vote for Obama. Won’t be like last time re the youth, don’t think !!.
Report Post »And relatively sure the economy/jobs won’t be better. Plus hopefully they’ll be more informed about the truth and understand the dangers/history of Socialism/Marxism, etc. and know the Constitution. There are many groups tryiing to spread the word on this stuff all over. My grandson (24), who lives in Oregon, grew up in California (lib counrtries), is a Consv.- will not vote for Obama.
cous1933
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:04pmForgive me but I’m going to take this opportunity to brag about my kids. I have a 23 year old son and a 19 year old daughter. Both are Christians, conservatives, and very intelligent and mature. Neither has ever used any drugs, alcohol, or tobacco. My son is following in my footsteps and is in the Police Academy and will be a sworn officer in May. He studied Criminal Justice in college and excelled in his Constitutional Law class and also took Michael Badnariks Constitution class on his own, after graduating college. I feel safe in saying he knows more about the Constitution than 99% of Blaze posters (he is a lot like Colt1860, who I think is the same age). My daughter is a Pre-Med student in college and just today texted me from school, excited that a “Students for Ron Paul” group organized on campus collecting many pages of signatures to try to get Dr. Paul to speak at the University.
I’m obviously very proud of both of my kids and the fact that they understand the principles of individual liberty and free market capitalism – the things that made America great. I’m also proud that they are both informed and intelligent voters and they fully support the most honorable and conservative Christian in the 2012 Presidential race – Ron Paul.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:09pm@COUS1933 Great post and it sounds like you have two great kids and you should be proud of them.
Report Post »God Bless.
cous1933
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:23pmProgressiveSlayer,
Thank you my friend.
Report Post »THXll38
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:01pmCous -
Sounds like you got a great family. It is also good to see so many young Americans wanting to get involved in politics. Unlike your children, I was pretty much worthless and did not grow up until my late twenties. When I was your kids age, I was more interested in booze, sex, and parting. I am kinda hoping my son will not follow my footsteps — he is only 4.
Report Post »cous1933
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:19pmThxll38,
Thank you for your kind words. Your son is lucky to have a dad who did grow up and learn from his mistakes. Experience is a great teacher.
Report Post »Mr Galt
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 12:35amI don’t think the bible thumping will help nearly as much as a chance for them to build a life like those that came before. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs – look it up. The future is dismal, and they have a long way to go. To a large extent, the young are correct. Most of the older generations (but not all) lapped up the luxuries in complacency and did nothing to stop the rising tide of economic devastation. They have inherited a mess and are not going to be happy about what they’ve been left.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:28pmas soon as America’s kids realize obama DELIBERATELY totally murdered their futures and increased the debt they will owe, that he deliberately killed their CHANCES to be successful and prosperous, and that obama has laughed and partied on their parents taxes like a spoiled fuhrer, they should remove obama — ala mussolini.
Report Post »GUNNSUP
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:31pmYes, I would like to see obama hung from a bridge for treason as well….
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:28pmOh I hope this isn’t decided by the college age unemployed crowd. I am one of them, and i don’t trust many of my kind with showing up for class, much less deciding the fate of the Republic.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:12pmI predict a bright future for you.
Or at least brighter than most.
Stay strong.
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:26pmWhy voters ages 18-29? Why not 14-29? No voter ID required. In Minnesota Poll officials are prohibited by law from asking for any ID, Just walk in and give them a registered address. I believe other States have open voting. A bus load of voters could get an early start and vote often in 12 hours of open poll time. If ‘Occupiers’ were paid $100/day for hanging out, I wonder what a vote would go for in a critical district. Al Franken knows.
Report Post »boundforglory
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:46pm$100 a day just to hang out, i’m 54 and could use some extra money, where do I sign up. LOL
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:22pmI think the Obamatrain might be losing a bit of steam with the “Rock the Vote” crowd. My 19yr. old daughter will be able to vote this year…she has done a 180- funny, it was just us watching the news together and the Keystone Pipeline fiasco that did it. News story addressed the environmental concerns, pipeline re-routed, all should be a GO…She has seen for herself what a mess this Administration is.
Report Post »bjornskis
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:18pmonly if you are able to vote from your computer from your mom’s basement
Report Post »Socialism_Is_The_New_Black
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:17pmThe Repugs are in a Mexican standoff with the msm trying to get the unelectable Mittsey to the front of the line. Have fun in Zero’s second term and watch him decimate this country. Game over man, game over! I bet we will be 25 trillion in the hole by 2016.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:14pmIf Ron Paul makes it to Ohio, he will have my vote. And i am NOT a paulbot.
Report Post »rock-n-roll-rebel
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:41pmThe only one that acts like a robot is mitt.
Report Post »byehlik
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:13pmI do not hold out too much faith for the good-ol-boy club. Romney is not Reagan he is a RINO! But if it is a choice between a Marxists and RINO, I’ll will yet again hold my nose and vote for the RINO.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:13pmHopefully the youth will abandon the Marxist and put Paul in office,it’s a long shot but the rest are a bunch of candyass progressives who have no business anywhere near the oval office.
You bought the BS the first time around now you can make amends and put the old constitutional conservative in office.
Report Post »boundforglory
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:48pmPauls foreign policy isnt worth a dime since he doesnt have one that will help. Santorum has my vote.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:05pmI like Ron Paul’s foreign policy…but of course I don’t listen to Beck, Hannity, or any of the other Scaremongers.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:05pmI guess we could invade some more countries but we‘ll need more money to pay for it and we’re broke so the fun is over.Santorum supporter eh. Good luck with that one.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:10pmTalk about our youth….
Drugs, Guns and Madness in the Ron Paul Revolution aim.org/special-report
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:14pm@TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12 You again YEP,I’d like to argue with you but I gotta go.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:24pmYou’re not gone PROGRESSIVESLAYER. You’re just readinG the article that I provided. I know the Paul groupies… their night’s not complete without a link. But this one you have to go to the site and put in the title. Ssssh, don’t tell anyone. This is special for you SLAYER.
Report Post »THXll38
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:04pmIt seems Boundforglory is for more dead soldiers, more caskets, and more American flags folded up in a triangle — a typical armchair general.
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:51pmboundforglory
PAUL’S PRO-AMERICA FOREIGN POLICY
* Make securing our borders the top national security priority.
* Avoid long and expensive land wars that bankrupt our country by using constitutional means to capture or kill terrorist leaders who helped attack the U.S. and continue to plot further attacks
* Guarantee our intelligence community’s efforts are directed toward legitimate threats and not spying on innocent Americans through unconstitutional power grabs like the Patriot Act.
* End the nation-building that is draining troop morale, increasing our debt, and sacrificing lives with no end in sight.
* Follow the Constitution by asking Congress to declare war before one is waged.
* Only send our military into conflict with a clear mission and all the tools they need to complete the job – and then bring them home.
* Ensure our veterans receive the care, benefits, and honors they have earned when they return.
* Revitalize the military for the 21st century by eliminating waste in a trillion-dollar military budget.
* Prevent the TSA from forcing Americans to either be groped or ogled just to travel on an airplane and ultimately abolish the unconstitutional agency.
* Stop taking money from the middle class and the poor to give to rich dictators through foreign aid.
As President, Ron Paul’s national defense policy will ensure that the greatest nation in human history is strong, secure, and respected.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:30pmPaul voted yes on invading of Afghanistan. Without a declaration of war. Doesn’t Dr. Ron love the constitution? Was Paul confused? Or is he a Neo-Con warmonger? Maybe Lew Rockwell voted for him, Paul was busy delivering a baby.
Report Post »conbones
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:04pmForeign policies arent going to mean a hole lot without a strong country to back them.
Report Post »What is more importent current failing foreign or current failing economy.
We have to stop the pendulum and set to a constitutional tempo.
i am not a paul bot i dont like him he is a fool on some things but
my question is who will be the best person to protect my indevidual rights,
privet proprety rights. Who will be best for the economy here at home?
Ron Paul is the only one who i consistently agree with on these issues.
we have to get control of our government and then we might actualy be abe to do some good in this world again. We have to save ourselves from the progressive attacks.
eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:12pmPARENTS….
You’d better put a choke chain on your kids – THIS ELECTION!
You let them do the HIP & COOL thing in 2008 – and EVEN YOU THOUGHT
it would be a POSTIVE CHANGE….but see what THAT got you?
You GOT – your kids back at home and on your insurance.
They are PROBABLY STILL UNDER YOUR ROOF – so YOU need to teach them
the importance of THIS ELECTION.
FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE – take charge as a PARENT AND HELP TO PUT THIS
Report Post »COUNTRY ON THE RIGHT PATH….SO YOUR KIDS WILL HAVE A COUNTRY TO
SCREW UP WHEN THEY BECOME SEASONED ADULTS.
barber2
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:11pmBetween their Marxist professors, drugs, the economic ineptitude and hate speech of the Obama crowd, little wonder they are miserable. JFK asked young people to do things for the betterment of America. Obama asks our young people to hate banks, capitalism, rich CEOs, and Wall Street. Heck, now they are encouraged to Occupy public space. Hope someone reaches the youth before their futures go down Obama’s Marxist drain…
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:07pmThe young ones are coming and they are coming on board for Ron Paul…How do you like them apples Republit@rds?
They want Freedoms to choose their own destiny without the Government interfereing and regulating everything.
They don’t want to fight or pay for invasions of foriegn countries, only to destroy them and rebuilld them.
They see Obama has spent their future on helping the feckless teat sucjkers that refuse to work.
They will give us Ron Paul as President in 2012 or rand paul in 2016.
From an old combat veteran..I salute you yunguns…
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:22pmI hope you are right about today’s youth embracing self-responsibility and distancing themselves from the entitlement mentality. I hope you are wrong about them choosing Paul. But as seen in 2008, the youth does not always make the best choices, that is how we got Obama.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:10pmDrugs, Guns and Madness in the Ron Paul Revolution aim.org/special-report
Report Post »nomnomnom
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:19pmShasta, you would have preferred McCain? The same guy who just pushed for the NDAA to put Americans in jail without trial?
Report Post »LibertarianRight
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:18pm“Drugs, Guns and Madness in the Ron Paul Revolution” – I call bull. As a Ron Paul Supporter that is also a successful computer engineering student, I have never seen any of this nonsense. In fact, while I support the legalization of drugs, I won’t even smoke a cigarette, due to my asthma. (Although, it’s good to know I have an out after people like you help the power-hungry, corrupt political class bring this country completely into the totalitarian circle.)
Report Post »spankadonkey
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:57pmBADDOG -the youth fell for fraud Obummer. I’m guessing they are smart enough not to fall for FRAUD Paul. What a guy.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 11:09pmTime_to-end or Yep, thanks for that link. The truth is found from the responses at the bottom. That will tell you how utterly ridiculous the article is. This article, according to quite a few answers at the bottom, made up voters minds to vote for Paul. Thanks Yep.
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