Saturday, September 24, 2011
Young and middle aged adults Do Not Vote in Mid-term Elections
Young Adults, for the most part, that I encounter from time to time throughout my day could not be anymore oblivious to the mid term elections. If you do not believe me walk up to a regular young adult of voting age anywhere between lets say 18-33yrs, while your in the mall and ask them who they voted for in the last senate race in your state. Haha, I laugh just thinking about the answers you'll get, because I have done this myself. Try asking them who their congressman/woman is. But I bet you almost all of them know whether or not their voting for the President or one of the Republican contenders at the next General Election. What I'm getting at here, is that you cannot take the results of the midterm elections as any serious indications of what the outcome will be in the 2012 general election. Just because it appears as though the President is losing or down in the polls right now, you have to remember the majority of people that will vote for the President are not only skipping out on the midterms, but young adults, progressives and minorities are not really polled, at least not to the extent they would need to be to actually represent their percentage in the actual general election. So all I'm saying is take all these numbers (poll numbers, midterm numbers) only as indication of which way the "die hard" and "old faithful" voters are leaning. As to the young adults, progressives, liberal minded and minorities it all depends on how many of them will actually turn out to vote.
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