It looks like the Republican spring of George W. Bush will have to wait another generation.
According to a new Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll, Americans 18 to 24 years of age give President George Bush an approval rating of just 20 percent, with 53 percent disapproving and 28 percent having no opinion of him at all.
Much like Franklin Roosevelt attracted a new generation of voters with the New Deal, Bush had high hopes of drawing younger voters to his party. He has sought to do that through policy initiatives aimed at creating a so-called “ownership society,” and public relations tactics like a Youth Convention at the party’s 2004 national convention in which his twin daughters took to the stage and stood there like mannequins.
From social issues to the Iraq war, young Americans live in an entirely different universe than Mr. Bush, and his party is paying the price.
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This poll doesn’t surprise me one iota. The GOP under George Bush has succeeded in making college more expensive by underfunding the Pell grants, raising interest rates on student loans and not showing leadership on energy, forcing already cash strapped students to have to spend more on gasoline.
Then, there’s a whole array of social issues. Most young people support choice, gay rights and the Voting Rights Act. This administration has behaved like circa’ 1951 on these issues to appeal to the lunatic, religious wingers. If this president thinks young Americans aren’t watching his cynical behavior, then he really is as stupid as many have painted him as being.
The good news for young, middle and elderly Americans is this: Bush will be gone and forgotten in a scant 2 years. Everyone, hold on, his end and our freedom is just around the bend and then the light will shine down upon us once more!
I think young Americans are far too smart to fall for any of this administrations crap.
What about this demographic? They were the demographic political scientists swore up and down would go to the polls in the 2004 presidential election and vote 90% for John Kerry. Guess what happened? Only 10% of them bothered to go to the polls and vote. I’m not too hopeful for the18 to 24 year old crowd. They burned us real bad last time around.
ROFL! The link says, “Bush isn’t exactly hated, but……….” Priceless.
That’s my demographic (until October, anyway) and I can report based on my own co-workers, friends and brothers and sisters that everyone hates Bush. He’s just thought to be a fool with a title and nothing in his head. He’s the anti-Clinton.
Re: Brigadoon —
Get your numbers right:
Your comments are appreciated, as are the opinions of the youth being of nearly the same opinion as mine.
Bush and many top officials, mostly Republican, yet including top Democrats, are evidently corrupt, furthermore, they are in conspiracy to be corrupt to maintain their incumbency, to be free to do anything.
As Chief Judge over certain voting matters, I saw many elderly that were illiterate, and they were typically Republicans and often expressed much hatred for no apparent reason.
While being Democrat is evidently better than being Republican, you are invited to visit and support NewsWhiteHouse.com, where work is being done toward solving the big picture.
News: White House: Global news from the US perspective, linked to this page to get the voice of the youth out to the people that run the US and the world. It was time for a change in the 60s and since then, only the change from party to party has not been enough. Corrupt conspiracies are a fact. Governments bust corrupt conspiracies often. Youth are often viewed as innocent with regard to politics, hoping siding with a party will change things. Change is needed, only (in the US) it needs to come from the Department of Justice (or from above: see NewsWhiteHouse.com for the unifying standard).