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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPoll: President Obama Maintains Large Lead With Young Voters
06/22/12
President Obama is maintaining a commanding lead among young voters, leading presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney by 13 points among those aged 18-29 according to a poll released Friday.
Obama was the choice of half of young voters surveyed by the Garfield Institute for Public Leadership at Hiram College, versus just 37 percent for Romney.
But young voters are increasingly apprehensive about the economy, and split evenly when asked whether Romney or Obama was better able to create jobs in the coming months. A majority of those surveyed said Republicans were best equipped to "protect America's competitiveness in the world," and fewer said that they were optimistic about the American economy in the next year than those who generally believed that the country's economic future was bright.
Still, young voters are more likely to believe that government is better able to improve the economy than private sector businesses, by a 49-43 margin. And they remain, on the whole, optimistic - nearly six in 10 said the economy would improve in the next year, far outpacing national averages.
Young voters also believe that Democrats will do the better job of protecting Social Security, by a 50-26 percent margin.
read: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/234297-poll-obama-maintains-large-lead-with-young-voters
President Barack Obama shakes hands with university and college students after urging Congress to pass legislation that would keep federal student loan rates from doubling during an event in the East Room of the White House June 21, 2012 in Washington, DC.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Young people these days are more practical, it seems.
Drale
(7,932 posts)I realize that if we let the Repukes win we are fucked for then next 100 years.
SoutherDem
(2,307 posts)Now we just have to make sure they register and VOTE!!!
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)so they can focus their voter roll purges.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,787 posts)I suggest the slogan, "Those with racist parents, if you want to piss them off, vote for the black guy!"
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)All the voting groups whom Obama maintains a lead with are the ones the GOP is trying to disenfranchise? Or as I say, intereSTINK.
bigtree
(86,024 posts)Upton
(9,709 posts)Obama won the 18-29 group by a whopping 34% in 2008. So, how can a 13% lead be considered good news?
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls.main/
bigtree
(86,024 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
Speck Tater
(10,618 posts)Call it a push.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,258 posts)bookman
(2,308 posts).... getting them to the polls.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,180 posts)would be a good way to start
BEAU1943
(61 posts)MY REPUBLICAN FRIENDS. LET ME GET THIS RIGHT. THE GUY ON THE LEFT YOU ARE NOT SURE HE IS A TRUE AMERICAN, BUT THE GUY ON THE FAR RIGHT IS A TRUE AMERICAN.
SOMETHING IS ROTTEN TO THE CORE HERE. DRESSAGE??????? YOU'RE GOING TO VOTE FOR WHO?
http://beauproductions.com/usworld/forum/index.php/topic,1320.#vote
http://beauproductions.com/usworld/forum/index.php/topic,1320.#vote
Click link to cast your vote. Please take time to vote. I am trying to get my totals up.
Oh, by the way, Romney does not ride the horse. He just owns it.