ib1yysguy
Junior Member
From an op-ed about Rove this morning in the Sunday New York Times:
"Just how much so could be found in the Journal interview when Mr. Rove extolled his party's health by arguing, without contradiction from Mr. Gigot, that young people are more "pro-life" and "free-market" than their elders."
This is, as most things that come from Karl Rove, a fabrication.
"Maybe he was talking about 12-year-olds. Back in the real world of potential voters, the latest New York Times-CBS News poll of Americans aged 17 to 29 found that their views on abortion were almost identical to the rest of the country's. (Only 24 percent want abortion outlawed.)"
Wow. I had no idea anti-abortionists had less support than Bush. Those folks are also no doubt the same people that support Bush, leaving about 10 percent of everyone else who's not a nutty evangelical supporting the man (on a good day).
"That poll also found that the percentage of young people who identify as Republicans, whether free-marketers or not, is down to 25 , from a high of 37 at the end of the Reagan era."
People tend to become conservative as they get old and comfortable and want to hang onto their wealth. But 25 percent? Wow.
"Tony Fabrizio, a Republican pollster, found that self-identified G.O.P. voters are trending older rapidly, with the percentage over age 55 jumping from 28 to 41 percent in a decade."
And in 20 years, most of those people will be dead, while most of the folks currently in the liberal category who are young are going to be reaping the consequences of the dismantling of the middle class and will no doubt be bitter about the policies that are keeping their paycheck from keeping up with the rate of inflation.
"A survey conducted by The Journal itself (with NBC News) in June reported G.O.P. approval numbers lower than any in that poll's two decades of existence."
That was also an encouraging thing to read. Libertarians, now is your chance to take your first tentative steps and rise up from the primordial ooze that is third-party politics.
"Just how much so could be found in the Journal interview when Mr. Rove extolled his party's health by arguing, without contradiction from Mr. Gigot, that young people are more "pro-life" and "free-market" than their elders."
This is, as most things that come from Karl Rove, a fabrication.
"Maybe he was talking about 12-year-olds. Back in the real world of potential voters, the latest New York Times-CBS News poll of Americans aged 17 to 29 found that their views on abortion were almost identical to the rest of the country's. (Only 24 percent want abortion outlawed.)"
Wow. I had no idea anti-abortionists had less support than Bush. Those folks are also no doubt the same people that support Bush, leaving about 10 percent of everyone else who's not a nutty evangelical supporting the man (on a good day).
"That poll also found that the percentage of young people who identify as Republicans, whether free-marketers or not, is down to 25 , from a high of 37 at the end of the Reagan era."
People tend to become conservative as they get old and comfortable and want to hang onto their wealth. But 25 percent? Wow.
"Tony Fabrizio, a Republican pollster, found that self-identified G.O.P. voters are trending older rapidly, with the percentage over age 55 jumping from 28 to 41 percent in a decade."
And in 20 years, most of those people will be dead, while most of the folks currently in the liberal category who are young are going to be reaping the consequences of the dismantling of the middle class and will no doubt be bitter about the policies that are keeping their paycheck from keeping up with the rate of inflation.
"A survey conducted by The Journal itself (with NBC News) in June reported G.O.P. approval numbers lower than any in that poll's two decades of existence."
That was also an encouraging thing to read. Libertarians, now is your chance to take your first tentative steps and rise up from the primordial ooze that is third-party politics.
