Poll: Young Voters Angry About Lack Of Jobs
And who could blame them?
Obama made big promises to college age voters four years ago and has failed to deliver on an epic scale.
Empty words like Hope and Change don’t matter much when you can’t find a job.
Younger voters, angry with the lack of jobs and a stalled economy that’s cut their entertainment budget and forced many to live with mom and dad, are expected to flock to the polls in even greater numbers than 2008 when President Obama’s inspirational message of hope and change drew millions to the polls.
While 51 percent of Millennials age 18-29 voted in the 2008 election, 76 percent plan to vote this fall, according to a new poll from the influential group Generation Opportunity, a 50 percent jump.
While the group did not ask who younger voters prefer in the presidential race, they are inspired no more and are clearly driven by anger over the economy and the fact that they might not have lives as good as their parents. The poll of 1,003 adults aged 18-29 was conducted at the end of July. It has an error margin of plus-or-minus 3.1 percent.
For example, 89 percent said the economy is impacting their lives: 51 percent said their entertainment budget has been hit, 40 percent skipped a vacation and 26 percent have had to change their living situation like take in roommates or move back home.
Poll: Angry with economy, youth vote to jump 50% (The Washington Examiner)
Comments
I completed an undergraduate program and went out into the world of Jimmy Carter’s economic mismanagement in August 1979. I continued working at UPS loading trucks on the graveyard shift (where I had worked my way through the 2nd half of the 4 year degree) while looking for a job by day. I can remember the anger and frustration I felt at the time. I worked in combinations of part-time work and other forms of underemployment for about a year after college before landing my first significant position.
I ended up voting in November 1980 for John Anderson, not out of a sense that he was viable, but because he needed 5% support in order to receive FEC matching funds to help erase his campaign’s debt. I assumed that Reagan would win, though I was not a strong supporter at that point. I thought a the time that Carter was incompetent and weak. Thirty two years later I am certain of it.
If I could be 18-29 today, I cannot imagine how, faced with Romney vs. Obama, one could reasonably vote to give Obama four more years. It’s not in the realm of possible. And since kids of 18-29 today have attention span deficits compared with that group 30 years ago, I just don’t see them arriving at a position of “well, it’s not great, but if we give him another term, things may start to turn 2.5 years from now…” If anything that group is impatient. They need it now. And nothing in Obama’s Administration to day would inspire you to think they have something up their sleeve that will lead to a rapid turnaround. So, that group stays home or votes Romney/Ryan.
So, that group stays home or votes Romney/Ryan.
I hope to H3ll you speculation(s) are correct, Wally.
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Marty: you won’t be censored here for writing “hell”. I’m sure there’s a limit, but I haven’t seen it yet. Then again, I haven’t seen any truly vulgar language either.