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.


 
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