Posted 1 year ago
Disaster Averted: Young Voters Now Dislike Democrats, Too
My thesis was all about the impending doom facing the GOP if it didn’t wise up and reach out to younger voters. I don’t think many folks foresaw just how much the winds of political change would whip around and blow the opposite direction just two years after the election of Barack Obama, and the Rock The Vote survey out today shows that - thankfully - young voters have backed away from the edge and have not become a permanent Democratic voting block.
The poll shows, most dramatically, that while young voters have not warmed to the GOP compared to their 2006 research (still a net unfavorable of 14), their opinion of the Democratic Party has become far less positive than in ‘06, when Democrats had a 40 point advantage on the fav/unfav (65-25). Today? It’s at 46-41.
It is that fact, plus the heightened attention young voters are focusing on the deficit/debt, that will open the door for the GOP to make inroads again and avert my once-predicted decades long loss of the Millennials to the Democrats.
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