Polls Show Young Voters are Changing Their Opinions on Obama
Well, Obama always said he wanted change. I guess he’s getting it now.
Andrew Desiderio of The College Fix writes.
POLLS: Most Young Voters Lose Hope In Obama; Change Their Opinions Of Him
Matt Gang, a freshman at The George Washington University, used to like Barack Obama, and at the start of this year the international affairs major was firmly in the president’s corner. But Gang says he has lost hope in what he calls the president’s broken promises.
“I feel like he is a president who is almost completely non-representative of the candidate I supported in 2008, and again in 2012,” Gang, 18, told The College Fix.
Gang is not alone.
Obama continues to lose major ground with young voters, as a new opinion poll shows Millennials have turned on the commander in chief – the second such poll to come out this month that shows his clout with young voters has eroded to an all-time low.
According to the recently published poll from USA TODAY and the Pew Research Center, only 45 percent of Americans age 18 to 29 approve of Obama’s job performance – while 46 percent disapprove.
This is a dramatic reversal from less than a year ago, just before Obama’s second inauguration, when his approval rating among young Americans stood at a healthy 67 percent. What’s more, 60 percent of young voters – classified as age 18-29 – had thrown their support behind Obama in the 2012 ballot box.
But after a rough start to his second term in office, President Obama’s approval rating among these same voters is on life support, as the USA TODAY and Pew Research Center’s findings echo the recent results of other polls conducted by the Wall Street Journal/NBC News, Quinnipiac University, and the Harvard Institute of Politics, which show similar sentiments among young voters.
By many accounts, the revelations about the massive, highly invasive National Security Agency spy tactics as well as the recent disastrous rollout of healthcare.gov have undoubtedly contributed to these low approval ratings.
POLLS: Most Young Voters Lose Hope In Obama; Change Their Opinions Of Him (The College Fix)
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It’s a little late for those regrets now, isn’t it. Elections have consequences and now all of us have to live with the consequences in spite of knowing that this man was going to be a disaster. Well, youth, you voted to have this man’s policies taking money from your pockets for all eternity. Next time, learn to see liars and frauds before wasting votes on them.
Change the voting age to 30. People should not be allowed to vote until they have acquired some of the responsibilities of life and some if the discernment that comes with it. These bubble headed young people sunk the nation with their successive votes for a lying fraud. They could’ve changed their vote after the first election but foolishly wanted more lies. When they are stuck paying the bill, I will not feel sorry for them. They bought it.