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Disillusioned Millennials Dump Democrats, Blame Obama
In a sad reflection of the hope-and-change expectations, a new national poll shows likely voters in the so-called millennial generation prefer a Republican-led Congress after next week's elections, and young Hispanics are turning sharply against President Obama. As National Journal reports, the poll of 18-to-29-year-olds by Harvard's Institute of Politics (IOP) shows that young Americans are leaving the new Democratic coalition that twice elected Obama as the president's approval rating among Millennial tumbles from 47% in April to just 43% now (and nearly 60% of young Americans disapprove of Obamacare). However, the news is not all good as the future of the American electorate, generally hold Republicans in the lowest regard.
As The National Journal reports,
A new national poll of 18-to-29-year-olds by Harvard's Institute of Politics shows that young Americans are leaving the new Democratic coalition that twice elected Obama. The news is little better for the GOP: These voters, who more than any other voting bloc represent the future of the American electorate, generally hold Republicans in the lowest regard.
The long-view IOP findings suggest that neither party is poised to win the largest generation in U.S. history - a pragmatic, demanding, relatively nonideological electorate raised in an age of terrorism, war, and government dysfunction.
"Millennials could be a critical swing vote," said IOP Director Maggie Williams, projecting the latest results on future elections. "Candidates for office: Ignore millennial voters are your peril." Williams is a Democrat and a former adviser to Hillary Clinton.
In the short term, the news is worse for Democrats than Republicans.
- Millennials who told the IOP they will "definitely be voting" Tuesday favored Republicans over Democrats, 51 percent to 47 percent. That is a reversal of September 2010 results, when the IOP found Democrats favored over Republicans among young likely voters, 55 percent to 43 percent.
- Obama's job-approval rating among millennials decreased from 47 percent in April to 43 percent, his second-lowest rating in the IOP surveys. Among young Americans most likely to vote, his job-approval rating is just 42 percent.
- Obama's job approval is below 40 percent on several issues, including the economy, health care, the federal budget deficit, and foreign policy. Nearly six of 10 young Americans disapprove of Obamacare.
- Among the one in four millennial voters who say they definitely will vote Tuesday, Republican-leaning constituencies are significantly more enthusiastic about the election than Democrats.
- Just 49 percent of young Hispanics approve of Obama's job performance, the lowest since IOP began tracking in 2009. That's a big drop from six months ago, when his rating among young Hispanics was 60 percent, and five years ago, when 81 percent of Hispanic millennials approved of Obama's performance. Only 17 percent of Hispanic youth plan to vote Tuesday, far smaller than the non-Hispanic percentages and likely a reflection of frustration over stalled immigration reform.
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With a week to go... things do not look good for The Democrats... time to get long 'veto' pens.
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And if you're wondering why the disillusionment... here's one big reason (via The Washington Times)
The Affordable Care Act was supposed to make health care more affordable, but a study of insurance policies before and after Obamacare shows that average premiums have skyrocketed, for some groups by as much as 78 percent.
Average insurance premiums in the sought-after 23-year-old demographic rose most dramatically, with men in that age group seeing an average 78.2 percent price increase before factoring in government subsidies, and women having their premiums rise 44.9 percent, according to a report by HealthPocket scheduled for release Wednesday.
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Blowback's a bitch!
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I think you're right. It's just amazing how long they've been able to keep this wheeze going.
Just take a look at what the Argentines keep doing time and time again. F**k'in hopeless.
Fucking A Spot On.
Truly "disillusioned millennials" would choose "none of the above."
But hey - keep hope alive.
I am taking Carlins advice. Grab a chair amd a beer and watch them fuck it up.
They don't even know what they ar erebelling against. These truly glittering jewels of collosal ignorance will run to the voting booth to pull the lever for Killery, Warren, Booker, Bloomberg, Kucinich, whomever the D's put up. No one has critical thinking ability today. They will just vote for the next person that claims they will help them in earnest.
I just want the government out of my life to the fullest extent possible.
"After the uprising of the 17th of June
The Secretary of the Writers' Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?"
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These idiots believed the" free shit for you" siren song of the rats and the "dem-lite" publicans and voted for unsere fuhrer twice...so screw 'em. They are living proof of what Vladimir Illych said when he coined the ter "useful idiots".
Why is supporting Republicans supposed to be "good"? Is there any real difference between the two "parties"?
D and R are totally different letters.
Furthermore:
D: love gays, R: don't love gays
D: don't love guns, R: love guns
D: love Mexicans, R: don't love Mexicans
D: don't love God, R: love God
I guess number 3 is now up for debate.
R's most certainly do love Mexicans. Mexicans mowing their lawns, Mexicans working their factories, Mexicans muling their cocaine, etc. What they don't like is when Mexicans want to vote or be paid.
Secondly, R's love _a_ god, not the actual God but another called Mammon. They sacrifice untold numbers of their countrymen upon His altar.
Third, R's don't really love guns. It's simply useful to allow the rubes to have a few pea shooters around the trailer in exchange for votes and money. When they no longer wish to mollify those cretins or decide they're too dangerous, they will go send stormtroopers door-to-door grabbing them like nobody's business.
If only everybody had the same opinion about gays, guns, Mexicans and God, this would be a much better place. In fact, all boils down to that. I heard that on TV too.
Even Granny fucking Meerkat doesn't enjoy 43% support so fuck U USSA asswipes
Hold Republicans in low regard? What's a Republican? Boener, McConman, and the other so called leaders have no agenda that they are willing to stand up for - and they bash Newt, Ron Paul, and the Tea Party every chance they get. The next generation of Republicans needs to come from these sources and be willing to stand up against what is wrong in our country!
The large number of government programs that have failed to carry out their duties and the dim view many Americans have towards Washington may be starting to take its toll on those who think big government is the answer. The Democratic Party has long been thought of as the party of "big government" filled with believers that government can solve and is the answer to curing many of our woes.
Sadly cost and reality are quickly beginning to show the flaws in this theory, government is far better at providing access of citizens and good at passing popular laws, but the private sector tends to be more efficient and better at controlling costs. More on the flaw in the concept of big government in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/11/flaws-in-big-government-concept.h...
"Disillusioned Millennials Dump Democrats, Blame Obama, Vote Democrat Anyway"
Can't spell DictatoR with a D and an R
Voting is for the brainwashed
I have given a great deal of thought to voting and have determined that I will forget to vote this time. I am not even a millennial.
Phuck the millennials, they voted for this clown. Reap what you sow you whining jerks.
Let me fix that for you. Fuck the probably 98% or so of this country that voted either Democrat or Republican and helped to reinforce this undying oligarchy/duopoly that is playing us off against each other to maintain their power.
noone gives a shit
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it isnt the end of the world
Barry laughing at the cracker millennials all the way to the bank.
Spastica Rex:
D and R are totally different letters.
Furthermore:
D: love gays, R: don't love gays
D: don't love guns, R: love guns
D: love Mexicans, R: don't love Mexicans
D: don't love God, R: love God
I guess number 3 is now up for debate.
Oh, you have no idea. That shitbag Bloomberg is dumping MILLIONS into the Republican elections now....to sway the "moderates" over into passing more restrictive gun control laws.
listen closely at the 20 minute 20 second mark....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUXBRcRC5Y4
Yeap, two heads of the same coin.
As much as I loathe democrats, I see no difference in voting for a republican. It's the system itself that needs to change, not the elected figurehead. Voting only maintains this fucked up this corporate fascist system we are forced to deal with. The illusion of democracy is the best weapon of the fascist. I'll vote again when we have a multi-party constitutional republic, a government that coins its own currency, no central bank, two-term limits for congressmen and senators, absolutely no campaign contributions except by individuals with a limit of $100/year and all donation records made public and strict voter ID laws. And this is just the short list. No more wars for profits, foreign aid or free shit. And the CIA needs to be completely scrapped. It has become nothing more that an infected herpes sore on the foreskin of uncle Sam's penis.
Folks, voting isn't going to make this happen. At least not the kind of voting that is done in a booth.
Then you are a total nihilist. Face it. The only way to defeat them is to confront them on their home turf. All the idealizing isn't gonna change a fucking thing.
I think the middle ground between these two philosophies, which I consider myself to have adopted, is that I will vote, but never for a Democrat or Republican. At this point, the most critical thing in my view is to create at least a viable third party. I look at how politics run in Canada or Germany versus the US and it is so much better, though no system is without its flaws. But I think at the heart of why the political process in Canada/Germany hasn't been as completely coopted by oligarchs as in the US, is that they have way more than 2 viable political parties, and fairly low barriers to entry for new parties.
In the US, 3rd parties are functionally nearly impossible. More practical is change within a party. As an example, take the Democrats. There used to be moderate Democrats, but now almost every Democratic member of Congress is significantly left of center. (Of course, the reason the Democrats are going to lose big time next Tuesday is that they've abandoned the middle). Because Progressivism has overreached, and because it has shown itself to be a dismal failure in all areas, it is possible to move the Republicans farther right, towards smaller gov't. Only with a smaller gov't with far less command-and-control of the economy do we have any hope of vanquishing the fucking elite.
Well stated.
there should always be a final option on any ballot.
- - none of the above
Revolution!! Fuck the rethuglicans, dumbocrats and tee tee party. They're all imperialist tools! Off 'em!
The Millennials voted for socialism and they got socialism. "I voted for free sex, now why is there a big black dick up my ass?" Shut up and enjoy it, commie.
Sure, the Millennials suck because they thought Obama was God, but all of us sucked when we were that age. Where they have it over prior generations is that the system fucked them quicker than it fucked us, so they'll reach enlightenment faster than us.
Yea, you might ask, "You deluded mother-fucker, livefreediefree. You are a conservative who supposedly is a realist about human nature, and claim to know the depths it can descend to, but you still have faith in the human animal?" My answer is, "I have faith in the human animal precisely and solely because I am conservative."
Take that, all you cynical Progressive fucks.
Not all of us. I campaigned for and voted for John Anderson in 1980.
Is holding Republicans in the lowest regard a bad thing?
Holding Republicans in lowest regards shows a polling error. The reason being the national data is skewted by very few, but very large big citties.
Case in point, democrats face history party losses even in Democratic states.. The flip side, Republicans will pick up almost all of those lost seats.
Either you're with US
Or against US
More than enough
See
https://www.academia.edu/9035098/_Enough_Cried_the_Golden_Goose_
"The millennials are dumping Obama because they're lining up to support Elizabeth Warren."
Yes!, She appeal to the Minorities since she Native American and shes a women (i think) /Sarc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren#Native_American_controversy
http://elizabethwarrenwiki.org/elizabeth-warren-refusal-to-meet-with-nat...
Four outraged Cherokee activists who say Elizabeth Warren’s campaign has ignored their emails and phone calls will trek to Boston this week in hopes they can force a meeting with the Democratic Senate candidate over her “offensive” Native American heritage claims.
“It’s almost becoming extremely offensive to us,” said Twila Barnes, a Cherokee genealogist who has researched Warren’s family tree. “We’re trying to get in contact and explain why her behavior hurts us and is offensive, and she totally ignores that. Like we don’t exist.” …
What was Warren't team's repsonse? They lashed out at the Cherokees. It's classic limosine liberal hypocrisy. Read the whole thing at the link. Total whitewash in the MSM.
Thanks for the link. Very interesting.
It's gonna be great fun watching the cat fight between Hillary and "Dizzy Lizzy" Warren to see who can out-marxist the other!
Vote with your wallet. barter as much as posible, avoide corporate businesses, save in PMs. IF you do vote, stick to ballot measures and leave politicans blank.
Blank does not show up.
Write in: None Of The Above.
amazing you have no one to vote for so no one votes.
democracy in action lol
It's not the color of your skin that matters here (okay sometimes it is).
It's watchnig friends and family struggle and go broke that matters.
millennials reject pepsi and look to coke. Millennials still don't realize there is only one party Soda.
All empires come and go and back again like China. My advice to the current and next administrations is to make nice with China and Russia and dump the EU.
http://www.pressherald.com/2014/10/30/obama-arrives-in-portland-to-rally...
The president began by telling the audience how much he loves Maine, then quickly shifted to stressing the importance of voting next week, of making change and of electing Michaud.
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NOTE: No one walked out this time, because Obama had a certain nurse stationed at the only exit...
Nurse defies quarantine as talks with state break downhttp://www.pressherald.com/2014/10/30/kaci-hickox-and-boyfriend-leave-ho...
Put the blame where it belongs.
SCUMBAG PUBLIC SCHOOLS.....that liberals, unions and the NEA have turned into feral wastelands, devoid of teaching any critical thinking. AT ALL. And obviously, exponents and compound interest calculations left the building long ago, hence the student loan crisis that a two-year old could see coming.
Teachers are part and parcel of the state. It should be no surprise as to how and why they indoctrinate their charges.
All the little heathens are "taught" is group think, Johnnie had two mommies, and to live your life based on emotions. And the state is your friend. Give more to it and you will get even more in return.
If you do not have kids in the pubic school system, I suggest you speak to a niece or nephew. You will be blown away by the things you hear happening today in those camps, excuse me, "schools".
I had a (very) brief conversation with my 22 year old niece last night. We were watching the Cleveland Cavaliers play basketball. My niece kept pointing out how "history was being made" and how I just didn't get it. I asked her to explain what she meant. she kept talking about the team and its players and how Lebrons return revitalized Cleveland. I must admit that the ads featuring Lebron and the pregrame light show were over the top and I'm beginning to wish Lebron stayed in Miami so we wouldn't be subjected to all this "savior" propaganda but I guess that was his plan it's working. But I digress. Anyway I kept pointing out that this was only a game/entertainment and meant nothing in the real scheme of things. I was dimissed as being a "hater".
Me and her grandma spent 10's of thousands of dollars on this young woman's education, sending her to parochial school (we couldn't afford private) and then helping pay part of her college tuition. She graduated from a top 100 liberal arts college in May.
And she looks at a basketball team as making history.
I tried.
You helped raise an entitled little snot who cannot think for herself. Rather than pissing away financial resources on her fancy education, perhaps your time and effort would have been better spent talking to her as she was growing up. Maybe a series of short conversations spread over the years could have put her closer onto the right path into adulthood. Throwing money is the easy way out. It's the socialist government way. You should have known better.
I am in Lakewood, so I know what you mean. Where'd she go, Oberlin? Thats as liberal la-la land as it gets.
Theyve been brainwashed, its really that simple. The "Rainbow Coalition" that voted in obama can now live with it.
As for your grandaughter, sorry to say, it will take her getting mugged to wake up from her utopian fantasy. something happening with more frequency now in my neck of the woods.
My health insurance deductible AND monthly payments went up 25%.. that's almost 1,500 a year. FUCK THESE ASSHOLES.