Young voters turned out to the polls in staggering numbers in 2008, hands down helping Barack Obama beat John McCain for the presidency. Election results showed 66 percent of this group voted for Obama and 32 percent voted for McCain.
Although the stakes are still high, experts are now questioning whether or not participation will be sustained in the upcoming 2012 presidential election. According to a recent poll by Gallup, only 56 percent of registered voters under the age of 30 say they "will definitely" vote this year.
The newly launched "I Vote" campaign reminds young Americans why they should hit the voting booths this November. Currently pending as a non-profit organization, the group is trying to increase voter turnout among the under 30 set by way of social media, viral videos and PSAs. The group hits on issues that directly impact this new generation of voters today, such as civil rights, women’s issues, health care and student loans. The group aims to not only motivate young people to fulfill their civic duty by voting, but to stay engaged in the political dialogue.
Tonight at 10pm ET, we’ll talk to co-founders of the "I Vote" campaign, Haroon Saleem and Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Jessica Sanders.
— By Kelly Wilkinson
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THIS video is the BOMB! Watch this, and vote. Vote anyway. But watch this, too because it's well built, rather craftily mounted.
Umm... The two-fingered salute is an offensive gesture in some countries. Was that what you wanted?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign
But not in THIS country....
The lady is in good company...
http://balder.org/judea/billeder-judea/Winston-Churchill-V-Sign.jpg
Unfortunately, this isn't going to replace the loss of the ObamaGirl, who is disaffected from the promise of Obama by the reality of Obama, as is a goodly number of the antiWar youth that now look at the economic mess that this country is in, and have gratuated from college (or are soon to do so) without much in employment prospects in the Obama economy!
Replacing ObamaGirl with ObamaGuy, a young gay song and dance man isn't going to cut it either, though with Obama's failing efforts at raising a war chest for his climactic campaign effort, I can see how they might gamble in that direction.
Ah come on, Grandpa, that stuff is only two worth Pinocchios (and I didn't even dock you for the clumsy grammar and syntax--you could use some remedial lessons in commas there, substitute teach). You can do better... Seriously, bend over; you can doubtless pull something really extraordinary out...
After Bill Kristol's "path to (narrow) defeat" remark, Romney is toast. You must've missed those Pa, Oh, Fl polls I linked; Virginia wasn't mentioned, but your guy is down by seven there as well...
And hey, about that picture on the jet ski...
Not according to Rasmussen, who polls likely voters, and not just registered voters. Obviously, the latter aproach gives too much influence to the ethnic and racial voters and the youth vote that don't materialize as votes on election day, you know?
Let's look at what Nate Silver of the New York Times says about Rasmussen...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmussen_Reports
After the 2010 midterm elections, Silver concluded that Rasmussen's polls were the least accurate of the major pollsters in 2010, having an average error of 5.8 points and a pro-Republican bias of 3.9 points according to Silver's model.
After all that, Rasmussen shows the President and the Mittster "tied." Sane folks would see an Obama landslide in the making with those numbers. Not that I think it'll be a landslide; the SuperPac people will be spending a lot to try to make it closer, and one can hope that those funds will help stimulate the economy. Perhaps some of the folks with overseas deposits will even bring them back to our shores and spend them...
A bit more...
The Center for Public Integrity listed "Scott Rasmussen Inc" as a paid consultant for the 2004 George W. Bush campaign.
Casino pit boss wants to see you again....
So, the folks trying to defend the AP/NY Times polls that seem to be so far out of the average in the direction of the Dems' candidates in every instance finds a "leaning Republican tilt to Rasmussen polls of "LIKELY VOTERS", instead of Registered Voters? And you are referring to the 2010 Democrat Party candidates drubbing at the polls that swept the Republican Party into control of the House and narrowed the majority that the Dems hold in the Senate, as well as produced increased Republican holds on Governorships and State Legislators throughout the land?
Might that be because the Democrat Party leads the Republican Party in registered voters, but not in motivated voters? This year especially, it is the motivated voters from the Republican and Independents (and Tea Partiers) that will be swamping the eledtion booths, Cab Driver. You are whistling past the graveyard again digging up those kinds of crutches to your arguments, as usual.
Keith, This is what I have been trying to say all along, but I did not make myself clear.
Huntsman said it and I would vote for him. My siter in law who is a mormon and my brother in Salt Lake City both said they would vote for him. Huntsman is a Mormon, but he seems more reasonable and he could be more specific as to what he would do. I think he would make a great president. Here is what he said, "
Former presidential candidate Jon Huntsman announced Friday that he plans to stay home in protest.
"I will not be attending this year's convention, nor any Republican convention in the future, until the party focuses on a bigger, bolder, more confident future for the United States—a future based on problem solving, inclusiveness, and a willingness to address the trust deficit, which is every bit as corrosive as our fiscal and economic deficits," Huntsman said, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. Huntsman had released his delegates to Mitt Romney and is no longer actively seeking office. But active candidates are making the same decision.
Nobody listened to Huntsman when he was campaigning in the primaries, why do you think they would care what he has to say now? He's obviously trying to get a job back in the Obama adninistration, and is in a huff as he wasn't picked to play on the big boys team, so he's taking his glove and running home.
hi to you Keith Longey I guess you have some trouble remembering that the government is 3 parts congress Senate and President Congress wont pass any jobs legislations so
no jobs they want to pay for it by cutting womens health funding and thats just not right sooooooo whats a president to do????? gotta follow the law aslo just for the
record we have tried tricke down economics now for 10 years it don't work time to
try something new!!
Try reading Romney's 59 point plan to turn the economy around, Deb.
We've seen the failure of borrow and spend, and we know that threatening to raises taxes and threatrning with coercive regulations on the business sector has been an abject failure of a policy. This three year running unbudgetted Administration has run up going on $6 Trillion dollars of new debt, and for what? June jobs report 4th straight month down in the doldrums, and GDP heading below 2% growth, cause the business community isn't buying any of what Obama is offering. We have another breaching of the Debt Ceiling looming before the year is out. and all this Amateur President is interested in doing is borrowing more for a last gasp public sector empoyment program to help his reelection efforts. Good luck with that, Deb!
Powerful video.
The woman is silent, the voices are of the conservatives and their faces.
She has the last word: A BALLOT.
And the enigmatic sign language: the V for victory, peace ,in blue and red...
Keith; Do you really want more diregulation and the market and banks making there own rules only to take advantage of the system. There has to be some parenting , some transparency in the over all funtion of society.
All the appropriate regulation was in place to have stopped the housing bubble in it's tracks, and the indiscriminate lending that took place for home equity loans and refinancings when the bubble was inflating. It's just that Federal Reserve regulators didn't do their jobs, as Alan Greenspan was the primary cheerleader for this in the Bush Administration, as well as the Clinton Administration. We experienced three bubbles under the manipulative Greenspan in his years as Chief of the Federal Reserve, the commericial real estate bubble in the late 80s, early 90s, the tech/dot.com bubble of the mid and late 90s, and the housing bubble of the 2000s. And now we have Bernanke leading the way with market manipulations for the continued Treasury Bond bubble that could be the worst of all, as mom and pop investors have poured billions in agregate into these through fund investments, and they will take a major hit to their wealth when the interest rates start to rise inevitably as inflation begins to show its ugly head in earnest!
Ron Paul had a lot to say, and still does, that other politicians should be listening too...the whipsaw trends that our economy experiences due to the interventions by monetary policy by the Federal Reserve to cause short term improvements at the risk of ruining long term wealth building needs to stop. But as long as those politicians are concerned with the immediate election they are facing, they won't have the courage and the fortitude to do something about it!
It took a Ronald Reagan and the steely guts of Paul Volker to design a program to stop the run away inflation that had been set off by the Carter years beginning with the oil embargo coupled with the cash rich Japanese coming into our commercial real estate markets that sent commodity markets and real estate markets balooning in the late 70s. I don't know if and when we might see their like again.