Obama Is So Yesterday

The young are bored with Obama. When I saw Megan McCain claim that the young were turning from the GOP, I figured that she must be auditioning for Rick Sanchez's job, where you just make up "facts." The truth is precisely the opposite of Ms McCain "feels."

They’ve quit bugging their friends about change, they’re no longer trying to sign up new voters and the knock-on-door day trips now draw only the most hard-core.

One statistic from Rock the Vote, the most aggressive organization behind youthful political participation, illustrates the difference between now and 2008 — just 280,000 young voters signed up in its midterm elections voter drive, a fraction of the 2.5 million who eagerly put their name on voter forms two years ago. 

The bottom line: From coast to coast, universities that brim with liberal ideas and idealistic students won’t be sending nearly as many voters to the polls on Nov. 2. And that’s bad news for Democrats.

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