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New Polls Show Millennials Continue to Trend Conservative

A new national poll of America’s 18-29 year- olds by Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, finds that six in ten (60%) are concerned about meeting their current bills and obligations and almost half (45%) report that their personal financial situation is bad. Among America’s undergraduate population, 45% are concerned about their ability to stay in college given the state of the economy. Date Created: 4/29/2010 1:44:40 PM

Obama's Debt Commission

The members of his bipartisan commission could recommend raising the Social Security and Medicare eligibility ages to 75, means- testing benefits, shuttering one-third of the federal bureaucracy, cutting military spending in half, creating a 10 percent national sales tax and slashing the salary of every federal employee by 15 percent and Washington would still have trillions of dollars in debt and unfunded liabilities. Date Created: 4/28/2010 6:40:51 AM

President Obama Seeks to "Reconnect" with Young People

The Democratic National Committee this morning released this clip of the president rallying the troops, if rather coolly, for 2010. Obama's express goal: "reconnecting" with the voters who voted for the first time in 2008, but who may not plan to vote in the lower-profile Congressional elections this year.

 Date Created: 4/26/2010 10:28:06 AM

Republicans take lead in generic congressional ballot

The One’s bounce has already started to fade but the numbers for the bill itself were an open question since Gallup’s shocker last week showing a surge of support to 49/40. Momentary spike due to glowing media coverage of the historic historicness of passage? Or a sustained rise as Americans reconcile themselves psychologically to their horrific new boondoggle? Date Created: 3/30/2010 11:34:20 AM

Republican leaning states expected to gain electoral votes

The 2010 census forms are arriving in America's mailboxes. When the results are in they will show that America remains a nation on the move. People are flowing westward and southward over the last ten years as they have for generations. Date Created: 3/29/2010 8:17:54 AM

20 Ways ObamaCare Will Take Away Our Freedoms

Of course, the bill is supposed to provide us with security. But it will result in skyrocketing insurance costs and physicians leaving the field in droves, making it harder to afford and find medical care. We may be about to live Benjamin Franklin’s adage, “People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.” Date Created: 3/23/2010 1:53:13 PM

Republicans look to get boost from young voters

A new study of 18- to 29-year-olds by Purcell's team shows that only 35 percent of young Democrats plan to vote in this year's midterm elections, as compared to 41 percent of their Republican counterparts. Date Created: 3/12/2010 6:03:29 AM

Young Republicans are ready to rock the vote

In another worrisome sign for Democrats, a greater number of young Republicans are prepared to go to the polls in the 2010 election, according to a new survey. Date Created: 3/9/2010 2:24:05 PM

Young Republicans More Enthusiastic

A new Harvard Institute of Politics poll of 18 to 29 year-olds finds young Republicans are showing more enthusiasm than young Democrats... Date Created: 3/9/2010 8:52:02 AM

Youth turnout expected to be lower for midterm elections

While national youth turnout for the 2008 presidential elections was 52 percent, the turnout in 2009 Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races was 17 percent and 19 percent, respectively. In the recent special Senate election for Massachusetts, the turnout for voters age 18 to 29 was only 15 percent, according to the survey. Date Created: 3/8/2010 5:05:21 PM

Young voters increasingly identify with conservative politics

A recent Pew Research Center report said 40 percent of voters ages 18 to 28 lean Republican, up from 30 percent last year. Fifty-four percent of those voters said they lean Democratic, down from 62 percent last year. Date Created: 3/2/2010 4:58:43 PM

Young Conservatives at CPAC

For all the verbal jabs directed toward Barack Obama's policies at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, there is one Obama item that event organizers openly are trying to emulate... Date Created: 2/26/2010 11:24:25 AM

Millennials Trending Republican....
More and more 18-29 year olds are affiliating with the Republican Party
The political enthusiasms of Millennials have since cooled -for Obama and his message of change, and for the Democratic Party... Date Created: 2/26/2010 10:48:16 AM