“Republican obstructionism cannot explain allowing the bugging of foreign leaders, nor having drones strike innocent children overseas,” Mr. Obama, said in an op-ed for CNN this fall that he’s not swayed by Democrats who blame Republicans’ stalling tactics for what he views as the government’s shortcomings. Nathaniel Morris, a second-year student at Harvard Medical School who has turned away from Mr.
But there are some indications that argument isn’t getting much traction any longer. Obama’s initiatives on everything from background checks on gun purchases to increasing the federal minimum wage. The president and his aides frequently blame congressional Republicans for blocking Mr. Instead, he said, “what they’ve seen is that the government does behave in much the same way that it always has - the truth when it wants, unanswerable when it doesn’t want to answer public questions, inefficient when it rolls out big programs like Obamacare and untruthful when it’s asked straightforward questions about them.” He said the spying resonates with young voters “because what they read into the president’s promise of ‘Hope and Change’ is that the government won’t behave like usual.” “But millennials who live on the Internet have been really disturbed by the government’s intrusive actions in terms of spying on what they consider private communications.” “Almost everybody has been disappointed with failure to fulfill the promise of transparency,” Mr. Obama should have taken a stronger stand for privacy. Lipson said some young voters also are disillusioned with the administration’s response to revelations of domestic snooping by the National Security Agency, believing Mr. Our economy was literally on the brink of collapse.” And I know there are young people here too young to even know. “See, because sometimes, when things get better, we forget how bad they were. “I want to take us back a little bit, to remember how bad things were back then,” Mrs. First lady Michelle Obama, who has been more in demand on the campaign trail this fall than her unpopular husband, frequently reminds voters about the dismal state of the economy when Mr. Team Obama clearly understands it is still fighting voter dissatisfaction with the economy. It’s hard to get a robust recovery going if you’ve got a wet blanket named Obamacare draped over the economy.” “They’re middle-class people who had hoped to see a much more robust recovery than we’ve experienced so far. “Millennials have not seen the kind of economic opportunities they hoped to see or their parents had hoped to see for them,” said Republican pollster Whit Ayres, president of North Star Opinion Strategies. Nearly six of 10 of those young voters disapprove of Obamacare. That is a reversal from 2010, when the same poll showed that “millennial” voters favored Democrats over Republicans 55 percent to 43 percent.Īmong the young Americans who are most likely to vote, the president’s job approval rating is 42 percent.
Obama in droves.Ī Harvard University Institute of Politics survey last week found that 18-to-29-year-olds most likely to vote this year favor Republicans over Democrats, 51 percent to 47 percent.
Young voters, so important to the president’s winning coalitions in 20, are also leaving Mr. While Hispanic voters still strongly favor Democratic candidates, such disillusionment is factoring into an enthusiasm gap between the parties this year, with pollsters saying Republican voters are more motivated to go to the polls. Obama told the crowd, “The problem is, she should be protesting the Republicans who are blocking it in Congress. His response is to tell the protesters to heckle Republicans instead.Īt a campaign rally in Milwaukee last week, a young woman interrupted the president to complain about the lack of a comprehensive immigration reform law. SEE ALSO: Obama delivers campaign speech to mostly empty venueīut Democrats’ frustration over the president’s unfulfilled promise is so palpable that protesters routinely heckle Mr. Obama is vowing to sign an executive order that is expected to grant amnesty to a significant share of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. Now, in the closing months of the sixth year of his presidency, Mr. Obama’s coalition to suffer a letdown when he broke his promise to approve immigration reform in the first year of his presidency.
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