The Meh Generation
They’re not exactly rocking the hopenchange in Nevada or North Carolina:
North Carolina — Between November 2008 and November 2011, North Carolina saw a net gain of 93,709 in the number of overall, new registrations. However, youth registrants (ages 18-25) lost a net of 48,500 new registrations, while older adults (ages 26 and over) gained over 142,000 registrants. Of the 48,500 net loss in youth registrants, 80.4% were lost among registered Democrats, a net loss of 39,049 young Democratic registrants.
Nevada — Nevada’s registration rolls have shrunk by a net of 117,109 people since the 2008 election, of whom 50,912 (or 43% of the decline) are between the ages of 18-24. The significant challenge for Democratic candidates in Nevada in 2012, including the re-election campaign of President Barack Obama, is not the ratio of Democrats to Republicans among Nevada youth, since Democratic young people still outnumber Republican young people on the registration rolls by 45,222 to 25,182. However, the potentially, negative electoral impact for the re-election campaign of President Obama is due to the decline in the youth share of all registrants — youth were 11% of Nevada’s registered voters in 2008 election but just 7.85% in October 2011. Given the overwhelming support young voters showed President Obama’s 2008 campaign, with nearly two-thirds of young voters casting their ballot for Obama, this drop in the share of the electorate comprised of young voters could prove a major difficulty to the 2012 re-election campaign for President Obama in Nevada.
I’d like to see some numbers from Colorado and Virginia as well.
Very interesting stats.
Our own young voter registered for the first time. She’s not an Obama supporter.
Don’t worry. “We’re Not ACORN Anymore” will have those numbers back up just in time for the election.
Pretty much.
I know quite a few liberals that really hate Obama. And I don’t mean, oh they dislike him a bit. I mean they hate him more than they hate George W. Bush. The partisans will cling to the bitter end (on both sides – I mean, seriously, Romney and Gingrich?!??), but lots of people in both parties are fed up with the endless stream of pandering and lies from all corners of Washington.
I am a North Carolinian and can tell you first hand the mood here is not very Democrat friendly. Obama made no friend by coming here to visit companies he touted as job creators. They did create jobs but in China and other places outside the US, but definitely not in NC. Governor Bev ‘Suspend Elections’ Perdue has patterned her administration after Obama’s and this has made her rather unpopular as well. This can be seen by the retaking of the legislature by Republicans; a feat that was some 70+ years in the making I believe. Her love of vetoes is also epic. Now it looks like her staff has been meddling with Employment numbers in advance of the public date for them to be published. Add that to her campaign finance woes and well… you get the picture.