Comments on: Young Voters Slowly Abandoning Hope & Change

By: UrbanGrounds

UrbanGrounds — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:38:40 +0000

The Result of the Higher Minimum Wage: Fewer Teens Are Employed…

It’s almost as though Democrats are intentionally trying to keep people poorer and more dependent on the Government…….

By: UrbanGrounds

UrbanGrounds — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:38:40 +0000

The Result of the Higher Minimum Wage: Fewer Teens Are Employed…

It’s almost as though Democrats are intentionally trying to keep people poorer and more dependent on the Government…….

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By: Jaded

Jaded — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:42:08 +0000

I don’t believe they will just go back to the Democrats they just will NOT go to the polls. Those younger idiots usually just stay in bed on election day or they forget to go after work because it was a long day. Either way it is a WIN for Republicans!

By: Young voters slowly abandoning Hope & Change « Try 2 Focus

Young voters slowly abandoning Hope & Change « Try 2 Focus — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:53:22 +0000

[...] Basically “The Peggy Effect” is this: Everybody who voted for Obama because of all the free stuff they’d be getting, such as the famed “Peggy the Moocher” (who was Obama’s freeloading answer to “Joe the Plumber”), have been running to their mailboxes for a year and a half now, and… pretty much nothing. No free mortgage; no free car; no free gas — hell, no free health care yet for that matter. It’s taking a toll on Obama’s approval ratings. (Source: Michelle Malkin) [...]

By: cubbiegal

cubbiegal — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:18:07 +0000

My son and two of my nephews will be 18, 18, and 19 in 2012.
Zero will probably get the Class of ’11′s vote. He attends a Jesuit high school and his mother is an uber ‘social justice’ Catholic
As for my son and other nephew, they see what’s happening and know that it’s THEIR futures that are at stake.
They’re looking forward to casting their first votes against BO.

By: rocketman

rocketman — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:01:49 +0000

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HI MATTM–#55. You’re not alone. My niece graduated with a journalism degree a few years ago. She went back to school and graduated as a lawyer to improve her income–and employment is really hard for her to find. Ditto for my son-in-law–his MBA hasn’t helped him so far in getting a better job.
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The new Comrade Obama (PBUH) economic gains have resulted in a new definition of RICH PERSON = ANYONE WHO STILL HAS A JOB!
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I don’t think things will improve much until we get real “hope and change” and vote out these socialist / marxist clowns in the 2010 and 2012 elections. And then it will take years to undo the damage they are causing to our economy.
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John Bibb
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By: Republicanvet

Republicanvet — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:47:00 +0000

On July 24th, 2010 at 4:23 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

“I am waiting for one conservative candidate who can effectively explain to young ears that they will have to work hard and wait for the benefits.”

Totally NOT needed. All that is needed is to explain to them their paycheck deductions and taxes and how their pay is going to someone else’s benefit.

Only takes about two paychecks to get the truth of it.

Believe me. I have young adult children. Two paychecks turned them into conservatives faster than any argument I had ever made.

Same here, but it didn’t take two paychecks. I explained to my son when he was 12 how taxes worked.

He is now 15 and is rather conservative.

By: WaterBoyz

WaterBoyz — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:38:50 +0000

As related to the GOP, did you ever notice that whenever an R responds to something a D said the the R’s statement is so weak and tippee-toee that it seems there were no cajones behind the statement?
It’s like the D will give some outlandish paragraph and the R’s reponse like one 7 word sentence.

How the h@ll is our message gonna get any traction?

By: Republicanvet

Republicanvet — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:38:43 +0000

On July 24th, 2010 at 2:45 pm, mattymatt10 said:

Saw a college-age girl sporting an Obama shirt at the library, and a college-age guy sporting one at Costco just now.

It was nauseating.

Buy ‘em books and send ‘em to school and all they do is eat the glue off the pages.

…and pi$$ away money on Obama crap.

By: txvet2

txvet2 — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:38:31 +0000

On July 25th, 2010 at 12:02 am, mattm said:

I know it probably won’t help much under the circumstances, but if you can arrange it, face to face interviews are a lot more effective than mailed resumes. You have to sell yourself, and that’s hard without a meeting. I never got a nibble out of a mailed resume, but once I could get into an interview room I could make my case, even at times when my background didn’t appear to be a good fit for the job. I didn’t get every job I interviewed for, but I never got one I didn’t.

By: mattm

mattm — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:02:44 +0000

One word, Jobs. Many recent grads, like myself, simply can not find work.

Lucky I still have the PT retail job I had when in school, but despite sending out resumes to almost any job that would fit, at most I got the “we have received your resume for job posting 1234566, Such and such position. We will get beck to you within the next X days if we wish to go further, etc.” email. I know many Co Workers in the same boat.

By: ChicagoRobb

ChicagoRobb — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:36:46 +0000

What the GOP and conservatives need to do is take some pages from the Dems playbook.
1. We will not get politicians who will always agree with us. Someone who agrees with us 60% of the time and votes in our leadership is better than someone who agrees with us 10% of the time and votes the oppositions leadership in. I may not be a big fan of Snowe and Collins but they sure beat the alternative.
2. Learn something from Madison Avenue. No more “it’s their turn candidates”. Twice we ran curmudgeonly old war veterans for President, twice we lost. Obama came off as a young attractive guy full of spirit, while McCain looked like your grumpy Uncle no one wants to see at the holidays. Don’t you think it helped Scott Brown that he was a good looking former model. Nevada is a good current example. The party had a choice between a guy with great family roots in Southern Nevada (Danny Tarkanian), a former model who is still great looking (Sue Lowden) and a frumpy but really conservative woman (Sharron Angle). We could have put Harry the Mortician away with the first two (in the Glitz capital of the world) but Nooooo.
3. Social conservatives still matter. The reason Newt should not run is 3 wives (also why I listen to Rush with a grain of salt). Some of us are tired of having the Sodomist agenda and “let’s accompadate Islam” shoved down our throats. The Dems actually try to cater to their base, can’t the GOP.
4. Find a way to bring indsutry back to America. Whatever it takes. Tear up NAFTA, bans on foreign goods, tax breaks to bring jobs back, whatever. If new factories started popping up all over, the GOP would be heroes.
5. Find a way to take over the MSM. Give Sarah a daytime talk show. Demand conservatives on the nightly news programs. Best of all, someone should start an all conservative network (no Fox News doesn’t cut it). No talk shows with gay hosts, no shows with lewd plot lines, make fun of the left as they do with us, i.e fight fire with fire. If companies do not advertise, boycott them. Heck use “rules for radicals’ against them.
Sorry for ranting, but I am tired
of the GOP fighting Marquis de queensbury rules, while the Dems use Marquis de Sade rules.

By: happy2behere

happy2behere — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:35:32 +0000

Moonshot, you may not be old enough to remember the Carter years but I do. The recession, Iranian hostage crisis and high unemplyment were quite enough to drive young voters to the GOP. But then Ronald Reagan Regan came on the scene and MANY young people saw hope for a robust future. Lots of young Democrats changed parties overnight. I did.

Seems like the times are very similar. Now we just need another Reagan.

By: BlameAmericaLast

BlameAmericaLast — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:24:47 +0000

On July 24th, 2010 at 2:45 pm, mattymatt10 said:

Saw a college-age girl sporting an Obama shirt at the library, and a college-age guy sporting one at Costco just now.

It was nauseating.

Their Che shirts were probably in the laundry.