How the GOP Can Win Young Voters in the Midterm Elections
There certainly is plenty of opportunity for Republicans with young voters right now.
Julianne Stanford writes at The College Fix.
How GOP Can Win Youth Vote In Midterm Elections
OPINION: Young people want to vote Republican, if the establishment GOP wises up already
In the past year, failed policies and broken promises have caused Millennials to become increasingly disillusioned with the Obama administration, causing a shift on the political spectrum to the right among young voters.
If Republicans harness this momentum, youth voters could defy decades of established voting behavior and abandon Democrats in November in favor of Republican candidates, helping the GOP secure control of Congress.
That’s a big if.
Listen up, Republicans; here’s how to capitalize on your newfound Millennial fans and convince them to support you come Election Day:
It’s the Economy, Stupid
What weighs most prominently on the minds of Millennials is the never-ending economic recession. They shoulder massive student loan debts and dismal job prospects.
“This is a generation that is in danger of being left out of the American dream—the first American generation to do less well economically than their parents,” writes Marc Tracy in the New Republic.
A recent Quinnipiac University poll released Jan. 8 reflects this fiscal frustration among 18- to 29-year-olds, with a majority of young Americans disapproving of Obama’s handling of the economy.
Ashley Pratte, spokeswoman for Young America’s Foundation, said the possibility of Millennials being cut out of the American dream stems from “unemployment, economic hardship, and less opportunity.”
“We are the first generation of people who might not be better off than the generation before us because we are saddled with debt and terrible unemployment rates,” she said in an email to The College Fix. “When it is discovered that liberal ‘tax and spend’ ideology is just not common sense, conservatives win the argument based on our ideology of fiscal responsibility.”
The youth dissent toward liberal ideologies, she added, “creates a window of opportunity for conservatives to spread their message of free enterprise, economic freedom, and pro-growth principles.”
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Comments
The problems with the Republicans is that they are simply Democrats with different fetishes. Where the Democrats have global warming, the Republicans have abortion. Where the Democrats have the welfare state, the Republicans have the corporate state. The only thing the Republicans don’t like about ObamaCare is Obama. The Republicans are even bigger supporters of the NSA, the War on Drugs, and the modern police state than the Democrats. Both parties support the same failed economics because it boosts their political and bureaucratic power. To change that would be political heresy. Any real change will have to come from outside the party elite, that is from some individual bucking the party power system but supported by voters.
Mid-term elections might change the dynamics between the parties, but not significantly change the inertia of the state. Any young people actually paying attention this year will not be significant enough or convinced enough to support Republicans on a large scale.