BARONE: Obama’s war on young voters who elected him | WashEx
By MB Snow at September 26, 2012 | 12:55 am | Print
By MICHAEL BARONE, September 25, 2012
In 2008, voters under 30 preferred Barack Obama over John McCain by a 66 to 32 percent margin. Among older voters, Obama led McCain by 50 to 49 percent.
How has Obama paid back the Millennial generation, which provided almost all his margin of victory? With what American Interest superblogger Walter Russell Mead calls “Obama’s war on the young.”
Mead is not a Tea Party crazy or Ayn Rand zealot. He is a history professor at Bard College and an expert on American foreign policy. He voted for Obama in 2008, and he’s not wild about Mitt Romney this year.
Nevertheless, he argues persuasively that America is undergoing a “transformation from [a[ late-stage industrial society to [an] early-stage information society [that] is disruptive and painful but ultimately liberating and benign.”
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