Younger Voters Present Challenge for Obama 2012

But while 18-to-29 year-old Americans are reliable Democrats. The young and dumb are democrats, ok, what is the excuses the rest of you are using???

Just as an artist mixes paint into hues and colors before the canvas, Mr. Obama mixes truths and lies within the teleprompters.

posted by: billy bob | December 27, 2011, 11:39 am 11:39 am

You’re calling young people dumb?

No wonder the GOP is so very unpopular.

Anyone who wants the opportunity for a job without reliance on government assistance is hoping for change in the White House! We need a steady hand to reverse the direction of the well intended but misguided failed Obama anti-progress policies! We won’t be fooled again!!!

15 trillion in debt, lucky to find a job, $1.50 gallon of gas ancient history, let alone
afford a new hybrid model car. No choice but to live in the Potemkin Villages of democratic cities where crime is rabid and taxes are half of all your net worth.
The future is here already, camera’s at every street corner and your freedoms
down the drain. Just think at 27 you have to buy your own health insurance or be
fined. Social security blown on scam to buy votes initiated by a Democratic President.
The future is so bright the youth of America have taken to wearing mask to protest. Why are they so scared, to wear masks. We were the land of the Free!

I don’t beleive this! I was taught in my freshman year at Berkley that if we have a sit in and join hands will can make this a better world and bring about peace and feed the hungry and have everything go our way! I still beleive this!

deadwrestler you hit the nail on the head.i felt what you described when i was in college 30 years ago…jimmy carter was in office….then came ronald regan who lifted this country up and made us proud to be american again . no more bowing to other nations….no more FAA like strikes.

I sure hope the younger crowd will stick with Obama, but as an older gay man who recieves government assistance, I will be voting for Obama no matter what.

For 80 years the Republican Party has done everything in their power to favor big business and the wealthy over the poor and middle class. They said Social Security and Medicare were communist plots to take over our society. Any program to help working America was rejected if it meant the rich had to pay one penny extra in taxes.

Now they are doing what they do every election period, try to fool the American people into believing that now they are the champions of the middle class. Some will fall for it but the majority won’t.

Party Time!
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WASHINGTON | Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:33am EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House plans to ask Congress by the end of the week for an increase in the government’s debt ceiling to allow the United States to pay its bills on time, according to a senior Treasury Department official on Tuesday

Obama’s Hope and Change. Translation: We can all only Hope (perhaps in vain) that we have some small Change left to jingle in our pockets when Obama’s term is mercifully finished.

.then came ronald regan who lifted this country up and made us proud to be american again
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-and he did it by increasing the debt dramatically with large spending increases.

Actually, Bush is considered one of the 5 worst presidents ever, not Obama. And 4 of the top 5 which include FDR, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson –were progressive/liberal.

Most Americans blame Bush and the Republicans more than Obama or Democrats for our current woes. Rightly so.

No wonder the GOP is so unpopular. They’re out of step with America and disastrous for the economy.
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Couldn’t agree more. I lost money and no Republicans will help me look!

I do agree that Obama has done very poorly on many fronts, but just give him another 4 years and he will imporve things immensely through his bigger government programs which make things better andf fairer for most of us. No wonder the GOP is so unpopular.

The article mentions a “match-up” between Obama and Romney. Then I read the following comment “Anyone who wants the opportunity for a job without reliance on government assistance is hoping for change in the White House! We need a steady hand to reverse the direction of the well intended but misguided failed Obama anti-progress policies! We won’t be fooled again!!!” It looks like this comment was posted by a younger voter. I’m no spring chicken. I’m 53 and currently have a job. Obama did fool us. He’s beholden to the same corporate special interests that pay millions of dollars to CEOs when the fail while eliminating the employee’s jobs. I’m voting for Dr. Ron Paul this time around, and for anyone but a Demopublican in Congress. I hope you’ll join me.

President Obama WILL win in 2012!!!
Posted by: demNme5
Yes, but what he’ll win is a new job as a corrupt “community organizer” for a middling, misguided town. LMAO!

Don’t buy into polls according to Las Vegas Review-Journal 20Dec. President O beats Bachmann 50%-27%, beats Gingrich 47%-35%, Perry 51%-31%, beats Ron Paul 45%-36% and beats Mr. Hunts 49%-30%. Where are this pollster conducting their polls Republican areas? I’m a first time home buyer thanks to the President. Lost my job then got a another job making less but spending more because when I spend I know it helps economy and that is thanks to the President’s action. Ask yourself what would our country look like if he follow GOP and did not take action saving banking and auto industry. Now ask yourself what would our country look like if Congressional Republican actually did their jobs and as Constitution says is their duty regulated commerce.

Hey Vince, could I please have a side order of fires with the bs you’re serving up?

I do admit that Obama has done very, very poorly in many areas, but he just needs another term to get in his groove, and all his bigger programs in place so everthing will be better and fairer. No wonder the GOP is so very unpopular.

“The republican party is only concerned with one job and that is in the White House.”
POSTED BY: VINCE
LOL. You describe Obama to a tee. He’s the most self-centered hollow suit and play-politics-all-of-the-time, teleprompted windbag I’ve ever seen. Your desperate, silly spin is spinning into nothing more than a sure defeat in November. The Obama “fad” is long over. Very long gone.

“The republican party is only concerned with one job and that is in the White House.”
POSTED BY: VINCE
LOL. You describe Obama to a tee.

POSTED BY: JACK THE KNIFE | DECEMBER 27, 2011, 3:28 PM 3:28 PM

Well, except the fact we’ve seen private sector job growth for almost two straight years under President Obama. Over 200,000 jobs added in the last two months alone.

As a baby’s vision begins to focus they see clearly what was just a blur! Young adults are beginning to see clearly that what was a blur in 2008 is a frightening image in 2012!

If M. McConnell & the GOP want this President to be a one term President then pass his jobs plan and let him fail. They claim the first stimulus failed yet McConnell & and others in the GOP tried to take credit for the jobs being created. So if his jobs plan is so bad I say just pass it and let’s see who is really right.

Vince, sorry, my revision: “Hey Vince, could I please have a side order of fries with the bs you’re serving up?” Me, a “clueless voter”. You mean even more clueless than the morons and goofballs who swallowed the vague and adolescent platitude — duh…Hope and Change. Compared to them, I count myself a real genius.

Jack the knife did you read any of my post at 2:27pm. The jobs are being created but not at the numbers many would like to see. You cannot fault the President for this when the GOP who ran on jobs in 2010 do nothing to help. M. McConnell told the Country awhile back what his job was. That was to make Obama a one term President. They think not of what is right for the Country but of just winning back the White House.

Vince, despite your seemingly sincere “tone,” you are merely cranking out the usual stale spin and clunky “bs” from the Obama Talking-Points memos, and MSNBC. It isn’t working. Try another game to play, even if this was the first time you played this one.

Since bottoming out in February 2010, the private sector has added 2.947 million positions.
What people need to remember all the jobs above being done without any help from the GOP. The republican party is only concerned with one job and that is in the White House.

Posted by: vince | December 27, 2011, 2:27 pm 2:27 pm

Let’s see. When did the Republicans take control of the House? January 2010? Controlling only 1/3 of the House, and they STILL manage to make the job numbers to go up.

WHERESMYMONEY just another who would rather distort the facts . The 3 million in jobs started after this President stopped the free fall the Country was in. Remember the one Bush & the GOP put us in. 22 straight months of jobs growth after that. And yes without any help from the do-nothing party the GOP. Show me one thing the GOP signed up for to back this President on to help create those jobs during his first year.

Economists watch confidence numbers closely because consumer spending — including items like health care — accounts for about 70 percent of U.S. economic activity.
Americans have more reason to be optimistic. The economy has produced at least 100,000 new jobs for five months in a row, the longest such streak since 2006. The number of people applying for unemployment benefits has dropped to the lowest level since April 2008. OOPS!!!

The Conference Board, a private research group, said Tuesday that its Consumer Confidence Index rose almost 10 points to 64.5 in December, up from a revised 55.2 in November. Analysts had expected 59. The level is close to the post-recession high of 72, reached in February.
The December surge builds on a big increase in November, when the index rose almost 15 points from October. That month’s reading was the lowest since March 2009, the depths of the recession.
One component of the index that measures how shoppers feel now about the economy rose to 46.7 from 38.3 in November. The other barometer, which measures how shoppers feel about the next six months, rose to 76.4 from 66.4. OOPS!!!

I too feel that Obama to be incompetent the first time I heard him talk, stuttering and stammering himself out of almost every question. As hard to believe, but I have an even worse feeling for Palin.

Lauren the same thing I said about Bush. And why I once again will vote for this President again. This President said it from the get-go this will take time to fix. Things could be better but for some reason the GOP refuse to help fix what they put us in. They ran on jobs in 2010 we now will be going into 2012 yet no jobs. All they have done is point fingers and play the blame game. But you do what you feel is right.

Ah, I see. You block the original substantive post several times, and then let the complaint post through so it appears you aren’t blocking anything. Clever. Not. And you wonder why people call you biased. Time to take your head out of that dark and tight place, ABC.

Fun question to ponder: Which gets a higher reading on the suckage meter — Obama or abc? I say it’s a close call, but discuss amongst yourselves.

Obama himself promised that unemployment would not rise above 8%

POSTED BY: JEROME | DECEMBER 27, 2011, 4:56 PM 4:56 PM

The daft right wing liars continue to lie outright. The President promised nothing of the sort. This figure was in a report completed before the amount of the stimulus was even known. and was published with very serious qualifiers cautioning the reader not to take any of the figures as definitive nor exact – and cited the reasons the figures shouldn’t be considered that way.

No wonder people are sick of the Republican politicians and their supporters. They’re a bunch of dishonest creeps.

Now Obvious just getting up from sleeping all day. I know as a tea party voter you have nothing better to do but don’t take it out on me. So have a nice day or should I say have a nice few hours?

“Try posting some substance…whine, and blah, blah blah”
(Steve)
Practice what ya preach, ya silly libby. Oh right, ya can’t.

President Obama’s approval rating is now above 46% in 5 of the top polls in the nation. And he’s at 49% in two of those polls.

Regardless of the vacant postings by the Republican right juveniles, the American people are fully catching on to the negative Republican tactics and they don’t like them one bit. Look for the Republicans to lose many seats in the next election, with a corresponding gain for the Democrats.

The worst the Republican postings get on sites like this, the worse it gets for their party.

Lauren sorry you are getting blocked but that pet part what’s up with that. As for the beating part what beating? If it’s the name calling you think is a beating i’m afraid not have thick skin. Well good luck with getting things posted.

Although some have tried to tease me just because I admitted I was a bored housewife who had to quit school to raise my disabled baby, I’ll still have my say. Sure, Obama has done badly at many things, but he was new and learning. He’ll be fine once his bigger government programs are all in place, making everything better and fairer for everyone.

“Come to campaign headquarters in Chicago, read the numbers and go into the election with your eyes wide open.”
POSTED BY: CHLOE, GOBAMA ’12!!
God, how laughable. You want me to agree that at “campaign headquarters in Chicago” there are still young people who still love Obama?! Der…OK, I admit that. I don’t live in any of the states you mentioned, and I suppose very much disdain, by the way. The support for Obama among “young people” is lukewarm at best, despite the cadre you are involved with, and it is not even half of the intensity that it was when he was first elected. Reality, please see it and then embrace it.

What a laugh. I don’t know how young we are talking about here, for “young people”, but if we are talking about people say about 16 to maybe 21 or 22 or 23 or so, then yeah, supporting Obama is no longer considered “cool”. He has some support in that age group, but most people that age view real supporters of Obama as fairly goofy and naive, and worst of all, passe. On to the next fad, folks.

“RAFAEL sorry but the President did state that some of things he has tried didn’t work and some have.”
(VINCE)
No, sorry, but you’re being incredibly disingenuous. He may have “admitted” that some things didn’t work out, but he NEVER admits that HE HIMSELF ever has really made a substantial mistake of any kind, or really been wrong about anything. I realize that a president can’t go around being overly apologetic or self-effacing, but nearly every president I can remember has more honesty about his own shortcomings and mistakes than the lame narcissist blowhard known as Obama.

Although some have tried to tease me just because I admitted I was a bored housewife who had to quit school to raise my disabled baby, I’ll still have my say. …

Posted by: Kimberly | December 27, 2011, 8:18 pm 8:18 pm

Wow, since you’re coming up with more and more lies, distortions and lows (a disabled baby now???Is that also supposed to contribute to me being a know-nothing in your peculiar world view? No wonder the GOP and its cults are so very unpopular! They mock housewives, young people and disabled babies!) I’ll just post under another name. I do commend your spelling improvement. Who said old and stuffy conservative dogs can’t learn new tricks like using spell check?

But will they vote for moderate progressives as Mitt referred to himself repeatedly less than a decade ago? Or will they split the vote and go for the libertarian?

We’ll see….

Posted by: Beth | December 27, 2011, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm

The support for each of the republican presidential candidates among all age groups is lukewarm at best, and they’re not going to pull out a win. The GOP stinks and everybody knows it, “Beth.” (which was a popular name for babies born in the 50s and 60s, right? ha! young. riiiiight.)

See ya on election day, “Beth.”

I live in a supposedly blue state, and the support for Obama is pretty weak among young people here. That doesn’t mean they are in love with anyone else either, but Obama will desperately need them to show up and vote for him, and many will not. I see him losing the election by a significant amount.

CHLOE, GOBAMA ’12!! You keep on trying and failing. Sorry, young ideologue, but I am 20 years old, and your loser insults about my name are hilarious, especially if you are truly “Chloe”. LOL!!!! I don’t know anyone my age named “Chloe”, thank god. Here you go, from Brett, above, funny and true… “if we are talking about people say about 16 to maybe 21 or 22 or 23 or so, then yeah, supporting Obama is no longer considered “cool”. He has some support in that age group, but most people that age view real supporters of Obama as fairly goofy and naive, and worst of all, passe. On to the next fad, folks.”

As a 28-year-old Millenial, I couldn’t disagree with Obama’s policies more. I’ve been a supporter of Ron Paul going back to 2007 and am rather disgusted by the lack of attention he gets.

If the nightly news people want to talk about honesty, talk about all the young people like me who support a REAL candidate of the people, and where he stands on ISSUES instead of a non-issue such as 1990′s newsletters HE DIDN’T PRINT!!!!

I’d like to see the Government stop the favoritism towards big business in the form of preferential tax laws and tax breaks too though, so I’m probably one of those few who is both a Tea Party supporter AND a Occupy Wall Street supporter.

“He’s been an excellent President through very difficult times…”
POSTED BY: GAGE
Can you keep a straight face when you type that? I hope you are very young, so you can later excuse yourself — and, more important, help pay off the bulk of Obama’s very expensive incompetence.

And Vince, ever-present Vince. You are just slightly rearranging the same drivel you pecked out and posted several times earlier. I realize you believe it is real persuasive and necessary for the cause, but it’s not. It’s just pops and buzzes and small thuds now. Get a clue, man.

“Gallup reports 52% of people 18 to 29 approve of the job the President is doing.”
[Dan]
Many will simply stay home, far more than stayed home last time.
KATIE already pointed this out, “but Obama will desperately need them to show up and vote for him, and many will not. I see him losing the election by a significant amount.”

“Obama has done nothing of even remotely comparable incompetence.”
POSTED BY: GAGE
Right. Thus speaketh the very far left. Billions spent under Obama for nearly no benefit (except as payoffs and pork), the fastest and sharpest rise in our deficit in history, no real respect for him from any world leader (friend or foe), Solyndra, Fast &Furious, and an assortment of unelected “czars” to collect a government paycheck for the corrupt “regulation” of our lives. But hey, at least there’s the teleprompted speeches, golfing, golfing, and golfing plus hoops and hoop picks, and vacations in the midst of crises (his own words). Just glad — if you’re young — that you’ll be around to both excuse yourself, and again to help pay the hefty bill for Obama’s solipsistic incompetence.

POSTED BY: CHLOE, GOBAMA ’12!! | DECEMBER 27, 2011, 9:20 PM 9:20 PM

I think Americans will flock to the polls to vote against the negative, obstructive party of “no”. They’ve had enough of that crap. Republicans will lose lots of seats in the next election.

an assortment of unelected “czars” to collect a government paycheck for the corrupt “regulation” of our lives.

POSTED BY: JIMMIE | DECEMBER 27, 2011, 9:27 PM 9:27 PM

Jimmie you’re very poorly informed, and it shows. Bush had a comparable number of czars, and you can not compare anything under Obama to the following . . .

Obama has done nothing even remotely comparable to the incompetence of the Republican Bush and his two MAJOR intelligence failures on both 9/11 and weapons of mass destruction.

Nothing Obama has done nothing even remotely approached the incompetence of Bush totally missing the economic collapse heading his way and calling it just ‘a rough patch’ while in reality we were in the middle of 8 million jobs being lost by real people with real families. The repercussions of that incompetence still impact on every deficit we experience and the overall debt we face.

Nothing under the Obama administration even remotely approaches the level of incompetence of the Bush/Cheney/Halliburton administration ‘misplacing’ 9 BILLION dollars in Iraq (never mind the tens of thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousand of maimings).

Hey Gage let’s not forget Enron and what they did to many hard working Americans. The same Enron Bush fought to protect after they sat in on his energy policies for the Country. And we wonder why gas is so high. Or how Halliburton was charging the Government 100 dollars per gallon of gas to supply our Troops.

I must thank President Obama for taking over my “top” spot on the list of Worst Presidents of the Last Several Decades. Much appreciated.

POSTED BY: PRESIDENT CARTER | DECEMBER 27, 2011, 9:54 PM 9:54 PM

President George W. Bush – a Republican – left office with a worse approval rating than Carter. President Obama’s approval ratings are way above where both of those other presidents ended up. Bush rode out a high approval rating due to ‘public sympathy’ after 9/11 until he totally destroyed any support he had through his incompetence.

Thanks BARD for the support, and I’ll bet President Obama appreciates it too. It’s always nice to hear from some of our few remaining supporters. Do keep in mind however that Obama’s torturous term is not yet done, hence his final ratings are not in. Can I chuckle now?

Thanks BARD for the support, and I’ll bet President Obama appreciates it too.

POSTED BY: PRESIDENT CARTER | DECEMBER 27, 2011, 10:06 PM 10:06 PM

I’m sure President Obama appreciates all of the Americans who are turning away from the attack mentality and win at any cost politics of the Republican party – and there are millions who want nothing more to do with Boehner and that lot.

Congress is at ALL-TIME LOW approval ratings since the Republicans took the majority in the House and some additional seats in the Senate.

BARD, now it seems you’re turning on me. I realize you’re not too happy about things, and that putting some sort of smiley face on it is difficult to say the least, but I said Thanks and that should be enough. I did my term. Obama, unfortunately, must finish his. Can I chuckle again now, or should I wait till you’re gone?

This is my last post here tonight, so “Chloe” (lol), you’ll be getting that all-important last word I’m sure. No, i don’t think “all Elizabeths would go by the name Beth really dates you.” Many do though. I know several, and most of their family and friends do call them “Beth”. Sorry, if you are so in the ozone that you don’t know that, or just can’t admit it. The rest of your post sounds far from “assured”. Sounds more defensive and ticked off, lol…. “It’s the American people. They’re not as dumb as the Republicans think they are.” So you do believe they are as dumb as they were last time and as dumb as Obama and his silly bots still believe they are. i doubt that. He’ll lose bigtime. Please be sure to make a reply you can read and be super proud of. It was fun.

Nothing has changed: Obama still sucks. I’ll be backing that up with my 20-something vote if it appears to even be close by election time.

Posted by: Jasmine | December 27, 2011, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm

Speaking of , ahem, sounding defensive. Projection much, Jazz?

I don’t blame you though. You have chosen to align yourself with a failing party.

So now Newt (I won’t go negative) Gingrich is going negative and pointing out what a loon Ron Paul is, while Reason’s Nick Gillespie is saying RP really needs to explain his racist and anti-semitic newsletters. Iowa voters don’t know if they like moderate progressive flip flopper Mitt Romney because he’s aloof, stiff and seems to lack a core. Newt is a philandering narcissist.So they could vote for Paul, which would be rather embarrassing for the party, I would think. His policies are extremist and totally impractical.

The Republicans really are pathetic.

I say Obama will lose 40 states. If he gets more than 10, I will be surprised. Naturally, it will be George Bush’s fault. LOL!

I never made any secret of the fact that I am older. As an older gay man who receives government assistance, I will be voting for Obama no matter what.

All you kids go to bed, or I’ll send one of Obama’s czars to give you an unpleasant enema.

ABC Moderator -

Your site is posting comments erroneously attributed to other bloggers on this site. Not only that, their email addresses are showing up under some of these posts and in our address boxes above the “Submit Comment” box. This is a serious breach of our privacy. Another blogger posted last night saying the same thing. Please fix this ASAP.

“The Republicans really are pathetic.”
POSTED BY: CHLOE, GOBAMA ’12!!
If so, then where does that leave Obama? Striving mightily to rise up to “pathetic”, and then maybe to scratch and claw his way on up to mundane mediocrity. I don’t think he’ll make it up that far.

Posted by: JerseyBabe | December 28, 2011, 9:50 am 9:50 am

What a silly post! Obama is not striving to be a Republican; he has always been way above them which is why they hate him. He is way more popular than the GOP, especially those in Congress, but also he is more popular, better liked and better trusted than each individual GOP contender for the presidency. LOL!!!

The GOP is not well perceived nor trusted. Nor popular. The GOP has failed.

Maybe we should all just use the same email address.

Hey if The Bama Miester can’t fool the Young voters for a second time then he’s in BIG trouble.

Posted by: Noz | December 28, 2011, 12:22 pm 12:22 pm

not if the Mittster can’t fool the OLD conservative teavangelicals for the FIrst time.

“The GOP is not well perceived nor trusted. Nor popular. The GOP has failed.”
POSTED BY: BARB
You can keep on trying, crying, and failing, but the failure is Obama. He has nearly no real accomplishments to date. Just expensive failures, corruption, and an arrogant sense that he’s still right, despite all of the evidence to the contrary.

“ABC Moderator –
Why is Barb’s email address showing up in my address box???”
Wait, I almost forgot, duh…I AM Barb.
My bad, sorry.

I am 20 and I guess I must not be dumb, I didn’t vote for him but I still got screwed by him. I had a job then he got elected and a few months later I was laid-off. Now unemployed I’m living with my parents doing small jobs here and there hoping to get hired by someone soon.