Gallup: Little evidence of surge in youth vote

by Rossputin | 2:43 pm, October 31, 2008 | Comments Off

In an interesting report Friday afternoon, Gallup argues that the turnout of voters between the ages of 18-29 does not seem likely to be substantially higher than it was in 2004 in terms of share of the total number of votes cast.

Although some Republicans will take this information as giving them stronger hope that McCain will win, I don’t think it’s very important…and I continue to believe this election will end up being a substantial blow-out for Obama in terms of electoral votes.

What’s more important, in my view, is that the Obama campaign (in large part due to their huge money advantage) is “beating McCain on voter outreach.”

I believe this election will be won (and lost) among suburban independent voters, particularly women, and that they’ll break for Obama because he’s more charismatic, younger, and better looking.

Of course, I hope I’m wrong, but as I’ve said a few times recently, the people are about to get the government they deserve.

They deserve it for not getting educated about economics, for letting Congress enact the Bush tax cuts as temporary rather than permanent, for not screaming at Republicans for spending like drunk Democrats, and for being so easily fooled by Barack Obama, described by ABC reporter Michael Malone as a man who is “essentially a cipher, who has left almost no paper trail, seems to have few friends (that at least will talk) and has entire years missing out of his biography.”

Unfortunately, the rest of us are going to get the government that Americans who are too lazy to care or, too stupid to see through the lies, deserve. Our economy, our liberty, our Republic will survive, but with great damage.

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