Culture wars may weaken youth support for Republicans

[MADem]

By Patricia Zengerle
FAIRFAX, Virginia | Fri Feb 24, 2012 5:45pm EST
(Reuters) - Colleen Wilson has all the makings of a foot soldier for whichever Republican becomes the nominee to oppose President Barack Obama in the November election.

The Virginia college student comes from a conservative family and describes herself as a Republican. She is an intern at the county Republican committee and paid her own way to attend the prominent Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington this month.

Her support should be a given for a Republican in Virginia, one of the closely contested "swing states" where the 2012 presidential election will likely be decided.

But it's not....

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/24/us-usa-campaign-youth-idUSTRE81N1FO20120224

[Odin2005]

1. MAY??? LOL!!!

[agentS]

2. "It scares me how extreme they are on social conservatism," - QFT

You and me both, lady. You and me both.

3 candidates want to take us back to the 1950s and 1 candidate wants to take us back to the 1850s. Gee, let me think... No, I don't want to go back in time.

[MADem]

6. Not even like this?

That's probably right up their alley!

[sofa king]

9. "Sleestaks for Santorum"

Some of our sock-puppets may mistake that video as primary evidence that humans and dinosaurs coexisted.

[MADem]

10. Yes, a scant 6000 years ago, mind you! nt

[salin]

3. Look for big efforts in the gen. election to dampen younger voters turn out

I am betting that there will be a deeply cynical - "it doesn't matter so why bother voting" sentiment targeted to younger voters. Guessing it (the gop meme) will circulate through social media.

[MADem]

5. I agree, wouldn't be surprised if some of that crapola seeps in here as well. nt

[Harmony Blue]

4. I fall into the millennial group

and I can safely say that the Republican party will become dormant again if they continue this "culture war".

[MADem]

7. Those sorts of dispatches from the front lines do give me comfort.

I just hope there aren't too many youthful cynics out there.

Idealism is a wonderful trait of the young. Some keep it all their lives, others lose it as soon as they join "the daily grind." It saddens me when young people get all jaded and cynical--if they aren't convinced they can change the world when they are young, who's gonna actually do the changing when they are middle aged?

[yellowcanine]

8. Mitt is afraid to push back against Santorum on social issues. It is killing him for the general

election among many women, particularly young women.

[MADem]

11. It's funny, too, since Mittsy pretended to be pro-choice for awhile, there, while

shilling for the MA governorship and trying to steal Teddy's Senate seat! It's hard to know what's worse, his flip-flopping or his craven lust for power that causes him to say anything he thinks will get him first over the finish line!