Washington, D.C. - Democrats credited President George W. Bush for their victory in 2008. Now everyone, who has bothered to look at any of President Obama's decisions or policies, admits that Obama is now looking to return the favor in 2012.
In the 2008 presidential election, when Senator Barack Obama defeated his Republican opponent, Senator John McCain, voters younger than age 30 were his strongest voting partner in the electorate. Obama that year was the beneficiary of President George W. Bush's eight years, during which Bush appealed to absolutely nobody - in any age group, not even in his own Republican Party.
In the 3 most recent elections, according to Dr. Stan Marsh, young voters have trended more Democratic "than they had in the comparable previous elections." That is, voters ages 18 to 30 voted more Democratic in 2008 than they had in 2006, more Democratic in 2006 than in 2004, more Democratic in 2004 than in 2002.
If Bush succeeded, and he did, in making young voters the most reliably Democratic age group at the polls, then President Obama will continue the trend and drive young voters in record numbers into the Republican Party, where Governor Sarah Palin will welcome and register them to vote in 2012.
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Comments: 54
Charles,
Thank you for commneting on my post.
It's refreshing to see someone who isn't a pot-smoking-liberal-hippie-troll comment on one of my articles.
We do not!
Screw you guys, I'm going home.
I think President Obama is doing exactly what I've always dreamed a president would do... he's ignoring the possibility of a second term. Either his policies work and he is therefore re-electable, or they don't and somebody else SHOULD be president. He's not even allowing the gawdawful economic disaster he never expected when he began this journey to force permanent deviation from his chosen path. He's handling both the emergent stuff and the plan with courage and elan. I don't think he's too worried about 2012, he's worried about doing "the right thing."
"I think President Obama is doing exactly what I've always dreamed a president would do..."
What was that? Give someone with alzheimers the position of VP? Or fill out the NCAA brackets?
Let's see.....he's reversing the disastrous policies of the 'Reagan Revolution' and the equally devastating con job perpetrated by Bush Cheney and Co...Sarah Palin? really? I hope so! Huckabee or Gingrich in 2012 Palin in 2016! yeah! I can see it now.....hahahahaha haha ha
it's heavenly
"he's reversing the disastrous policies of the 'Reagan Revolution'"
Are you advocating we lose a cold war with North Korea or Iran?
... or are you implying that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan aren't worth freeing 28 million people, ending genocide and bringing human rights to the region?
WHAT?!? Are you that ignorant, or just terminally stupid. We committed something approaching genocide in Iraq.
fellas let's see DISASTROUS policies that first create the problem and the 'solve' it thru wars......freeing 28 million? is that what Bush did? really? lose the war in N Korea and Iran? I think that by keeping these people seperated from the world creates a greater problem than accepting them...look at what is happening in Iran right now....the google is mightier than the sword.
and no the wars in Iran and Afghanistan are not worth it. we went there because we were attacked on 911? remember that? because WE were attacked by Saudi's living in Afghanistan....we went to Iraq for their OIL and to secure contracts for Haliburton. We went and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis and thousands of our soldiers not to mention wasting billions of dollars for a LIE. There is no glory, no honor in how we entered the war in iraq and nothing will ever change that!
Haha ha
I can't imagine anyone, except a racist, being opposed to freeing 28 million people.
Our own Declaration of Independence implies that all men have a right to be free from tyranny.
"Better yet, ask Japan after the A-Bombings, that stopped World War II."
Obviously history isn't your strong suit. The Japanese were about to surrender. The war was over. The atomic bomb was dropped for three reasons.
1. We spent millions developing it
2. To prove to the Soviets that we were capable of using it
3. Because we elect sociopaths
Free people from tyranny?
We've never done that, ever, in our history and we aren't about to start. Iraq is about resources and global positioning. The reason we went there was because the oil was no longer denominated in dollars and yes, genocide is a good word to describe the deaths of 100s of 1000s of innocent Iraqi's. The embargo that killed half a million Iraqi children wasn't enough. The reason we elect sociopaths like Bush, Obama and the previous presidents is because sociopaths like you vote.
Allowing the Democrats and Republicans to hand off the reigns to one another regularly is insane, defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. There's only one party in the US, the elites, and they don't represent anyone here.
Cute John, Japan may have been defeated but it sure as hell wasn't acting like it. I've never run into anyone of age in 1945 that didn't think the bomb(s) were a great thing. If you had studied the costs of the later island casmpaigns, you can fully appreciate the lives saved by those bombs. I won't disagree that an ancillary to the main idea of ending the war was warning the Sovs what we could do if neccessary but neither 1 nor 3 had anything to do with the reasoning behind its use.
Please try and justify the statement we've never freed any people from tyranny, thats a prerty blanket one.
Charles, you're so brave!
I can't count how many men told me similar stories. Men like my dad who was 16 at the time were pretty relieved too. The draft had taken all the men physically able or not considered essential in that farming town already. My great uncle was drafted but had one leg shorter than the other and they sent him to the engineers, we literally were already scrapping the bottom of the barrel by early 1945.
I'm not a racist, but I think I would enjoy watching Obama's motorcade getting pulled over by a small-town redneck sheriff in Mississippi.
Ah, I love fiction! Sometimes reality is so boring, so it's nice to see someone write about their fantasies. Thanks.
Yes well, you are all used to that...after all even Gingrich wrote that history where the South wins...hahahahahaha ha ha ha
bin Laden,
At least we agree on one thing, Louis is a good infidel and deserves to some day have his own herd of goats.
Louis,
What do we call "those" people who don't have an inherent right to be free? Are they "towel-heads"? And why don't they have an inherent right to be free?
It's "Kartman" you dull-minded Taliban twit. And if Obama had half a brain, which I doubt he does, he would want to be the Abraham Lincoln of the Middle East.
Of course, I don't believe he really admires Lincoln and the concept of freedom the way he claims. Otherwise, he'd want to end the tyranny in the Middle East the way Lincoln ended it in the U.S.
As long as Obama's free, who cares about anyone being persecuted in Iraq or Afghanistan?
Eric, I voted for McCain. I heard Obama say with his own mouth that he was a muslim. George S.. corrected him and said christian. Oh Obama hasn't had time to find a church. I wonder why? Glamour Boy is on magazines more than Brad Pitt. LOL one more thing. How come the plane that hit the pentagon doesn't exist?????? Someone showed me the pics tonite. NO plane What blew it up. Why did the government say 4 planes that day? Creepy isn't it.
Annmarie,
It's probably tough for Obama to find a church. I've been in dozens and have never heard a pastor use racist sermons. It's not easy finding one like he's used to.
Just tune in to Sunday radio here and you'll hear tons of it but for some reason they won't let black folks say the same thing. .
"Just tune in to Sunday radio here and you'll hear tons of it but for some reason they won't let black folks say the same thing."
Are you suggesting that some racism isn't as offensive because of who might be practicing it? If so, you're a hypocrite and you have dangerous views.
I'm suggesting that you and many others love to use Obama's church or his former pastor as a way of holding up racism to the world yet you ignore the very same characteristics on many of your own radio stations and churches. I have listened to some of the most vile, racist, hypocritical low life broadcast all my life yet I have not heard a peep from you or those who think like you about it. You continuously hold up others as an example of racist remarks but you go right on spewing the same old crap.
My views are no more dangerous than yours yet you only see your side of it or have you become so immune to it you don't see or hear it?
"very same characteristics on many of your own radio stations and churches."
I only listen to classic rock. Are you referring to AC/DC? I like them, but I prefer Simon and Garfunkle.
And I don't belong to any church. But I know racism and the Reverend Wright is a racist. Anyone who sat in his church for 20 years either has similar views or tolerates racist views. And tolerating racist views is as bad as having them. Why did Oprah keave the church?
...the google is mightier than the sword."
Louis,
You mean the Google that was banned in Iran?
Actually,
I think it's currently banned.... just after this election. I recall hearing they the only internet presence they couldn't "control" was Twitter.
droll, very droll...
I love it.... *chuckle*
Glad I didn't miss this post. Good one.
One would think you'd tire of having conversations with yourself even if they are funny. You must drink a lot.
It has nothing to do with alcohol, but rather, the high cost of psychotropic medications.
Somehow I suspected that.
Me too
Johnny Reb,
Is Miss Manure your mother? And what do you two suspect, "it's time for us get high" as Towelie says?
If my mom looked like that I'd thank God for alcohol, otherwise I'd never have been born.
You weren't. Extrusion comes to mind.
What a great post!
A bit of wishful thinking, without any evidence, praised by the delusional and at least one conspiracy-theorist who claims to hear voices that no other person in the world has heard.
Guess what, GOP losers, Republican Party registration has FALLEN since the elections in November (not much attraction to the "party of no"), the Democrats won the one "must win" (according to the RNC) seat in the House that was contested since November, and the demographic shift to Obama has not changed.
The author conveniently "forgets" to note that Obama won in EVERY age category except voters age 65 and older (and there are fewer of them each year).
A lot can happen between now and 2012, but clapping your hands isn't going to save the Republican fairies.
"... who claims to hear voices that no other person in the world has heard."
Peter,
You have that backwards, it was Obama that claimed he didn't hear Reverend Wright's racist rants when the whole world heard them.
He also didn't think the world would hear that he was using "just words" of Governor Deval Patrick's, rather than his own.
I'm personally hoping that Hillary quits over Obama's soft foreign policy stance and the moderates retake the Democratic party from the fringe and looney left.
Otherwise, I'm going Republican.
Obama is doing his best to give 2012 to the Repubs but I must admit I don't see how even with his help it'll happen. Whoever gets elected then will have a lot to try and clean up and I don't think it honestly can be done at this point by any potential Repub candidate that is likely to pop up. This trend downwards has really picked up speed and the Dem lite approach of the Repubs won't be enough to save or even reverse the mess we are expanding daily.
One thing that no one seems to think about when talking of collapses or revolution or what have you is this; once the system we have is totally lost then it will take lots of time for trust in the new one to build up again. Also, the lives/treasure lost will not be quickly replaced...I wish the dolts who keep demanding more control on this or that realized what they were doing by destroying the system that gave them a way of life like we have...
Charles the 'system' was destroyed in the 80's with reaganomics...it just took 30 years to collapse.
Having been an adult then Louis and grown up in Carteromics, I really don't think you have a clue to waht you are saying.