Can Obama Keep The Youth Vote Amid A Bleak Job Market?
source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/09/obama-youth-vote-millennials_n_859685.html
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/09/obama-youth-vote-millennials_n_859685.h...
NEW YORK -- At 17, Rachel Marshall spent most of the 2004 presidential election sulking because she wasn't yet old enough to vote.
Four years later, Marshall more than made up for lost time by co-founding the local chapter of Ball State University’s Students for Barack Obama.
Early on in Obama’s bid for the White House, Marshall, now 24, was drawn not only to Obama’s charisma and idealism, but to his authentic ability to connect with young voters.
“You could tell he genuinely cared about our generation and was really focused on the future of this country and what kind of legacy he would make sure to leave for us,” says Marshall, who grew up in West Chester, Ohio, where House Speaker John Boehner resides. She is the lone Democrat in a family of Republicans.
After graduating from college during the peak of the recession, Marshall moved back home, unable to find a job. Two years later, she still lives in her mother’s basement
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tomoni
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Who else are we going to vote for? Thats a sad thing to say but it's a true statement. Conservatives don't give a crap about jobs they're far more interested in social issues like what's happening in your womb. But seriously Obama and the rest of the democrats need to get serious about the unemployment rate and stop worrying about the deficit! Any economist worth their salt is going to tell you that. I just hope after he gets re elected (and he will the republicans have no one and they know it) he'll end the wars and give us a real stimulus package which includes ending the Bush tax cuts and the getting rid of all these stupid corporate tax loopholes.
- 1 year ago
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tomoni
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August_K
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I should hope they'd vote for him. He didn't cause the economic meltdown and the loss of jobs. He did cut out the profiteering student loan middlemen and made Pell Grants easier to get.
It's the GOP that wants to cut (or did they already?) cut funding for Pell Grants and it's the GOP who is slashing the eduction budget. - 1 year ago
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letsliveinpeace
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Good article!
- 1 year ago
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letsliveinpeace
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OrchidBlack
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“The Youth” are going to vote for Obama because what other choice do we have? Either don’t participate in the political process or vote for the most sensible candidate despite his failure to do more about the lack of jobs for the young and college educated.
- 1 year ago
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OrchidBlack
