This little article was buried in today's New York Times, but it's a stunner. A new poll, conducted by Harvard University, finds that young people between the ages of 18 and 29 have turned against Obamacare in big numbers. If I were Obama and the Democrats, I would be very, very nervous . . . http://www.nytimes.com/news/afforda...ouring-on-health-law-and-obama/?smid=fb-share
What I don't understand is how these people were convinced that anything would be different in his second term.
I don't get it, either, but apparently the disastrous rollout of Obamacare finally opened their eyes.
What I find sad, but also extremely comical, is that Obama has essentially done everything that people hated Bush for. Patriot act, spying, war, all of that good stuff, and he RAN on an open and honest government. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad. It just shows that people are suckers. They'll believe anything.
Most of my friends didn't vote in the last election. Of the ones that did, most of them were not very well informed and voted for Obama because it was the cool thing to do. To be fair, I think most of them would have voted for Obama even if they were informed, just based on their social opinions.
That's not the point. The success of Obamacare is dependent on the millennials. If they choose to not participate, Obamacare is dead, and so are the Democrats in the 2014 elections.
You may be right, but it seems the chickens are coming home to roost. The rollout of Obamacare may be the single most effective argument against Liberalism that was ever invented.
Young people rarely vote nowadays, and those that do vote for who their parents tell them to. Half of those surveyed were too young for the 2008 election.
It's a Republican plan, and there's nothing liberal about it except the total lack of price controls. It's mainly dictatorial with elements of facism and forced servitude.
According to Obama's election team, winning over the young voters was a crucial part of their success. Now it seems they are losing them in droves. Yes, that's what the article said, but they will be voting in the future, and it doesn't look like they're too crazy about big, intrusive, and expensive federal programs.
Not sure how you came to that conclusion. Obamacare was shoved through Congress by the Democrats and was a strictly partisan affair. It didn't get a single Republican vote.
