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Obama advantage with young people may be slipping: polls
Four years ago, young voters flocked in their tens of thousands to hear Barack Obama tell them they could change the world. But youngsters who helped make Obama president have grown up in the human detritus of the Great Recession and many see dreams of a bright future dimmed as…
Conservative editor: Young Americans ‘so frickin’ stupid’ they shouldn’t get to vote
Appearing in a video published online on Thursday, Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large for the neoconservative National Review Online website, explains that he believes letting 18-year-old Americans vote is a big mistake that should be taken back. Advocating that conservatives should “literally” beat young people into political submission, Goldberg said that young…
Obama challenges Romney on youth vote swing
IOWA CITY, Iowa — US President Barack Obama is giving his newly crowned Republican foe Mitt Romney a taste of the fight to come, assembling capacity crowds of fired-up young voters in a blitz of swing states. Obama dropped into university campuses in North Carolina, Colorado and Iowa, drumming up…
Michael Moore: Youth stayed home in 2010 because of Obama’s ‘B.S.’
Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore said Tuesday that young voters did not turn out for 2010 elections because “they don’t suffer fools” and “because they don’t take bullshit.” “You promise them something, you’d better do it, or they’re going to call you on it” he said during a speech at the…
McCain’s tattooed, thong-clad Second Life *ss
When I clicked over to Jesus’ General the other morning, I should not have been eating breakfast. Guest poster “John McCain” shared his trip to show how he knows how to “connect” with young voters in the virtual world known as Second Life. See his pasty virtual tattooed posterior below…
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