Tweet
Back in January, marble-mouthed Jason Mattera advised the Republican party that they could lock up the yout’ vote by appealing to their "innate conservatism".
The McCain campaigned apparently listened and has been running against "socialism" and smaller, less obtrusive government.
So how has that worked out?
Like this:
A brand-new NBC/WSJ/MySpace poll illustrates not only McCain’s challenge come Election Day, but also the challenge the Republican Party could face in future elections. In the poll, Obama enjoys a more than 2-to-1 advantage over McCain among first-time (read: 18-21 year olds) and lapsed voters, 69%-27%. These voters have a much more positive view of Obama (64%-27% fav/unfav rating) than average voters do (56%-33% fav/unfav in last week’s NBC/WSJ survey). What’s more, they have a much more negative view of McCain (29%-59%) and Palin (23%-54%) than average voters do.
To be fair, all of the young conservative voters (except for Jason) signed up for overseas military duty so they probably weren’t near a phone when the pollsters called, so this is probably just another poll fail.
20 Comments
Support this site!
Subscribe to the newsletter
Advertise on Firedoglake
Send
us your tips
Make us your homepage
About TBogg
RSS/XML Feed
He’s a marketing wizard!
Let’s look at his assumptions.
“Socialism”. Hmmm…If young voters know anything at all about socialism, it’s that Europe has an awesome welfare state that emphasizes quality of life, its countries give you 6 weeks of vacation, you can score free health care and you can smoke dope in Amsterdam. Verdict: Kids hate Socialism.
Smaller, less obtrusive government. Considering that most 18 to 21 year olds pay about, oh, $0 in income tax and many get federally-backed student loans to go to state schools I think the idea of “smaller government” is teh AWESOME!
And less obtrusive? I know that after spying on Americans, trying to legislate against gays marrying, creating a Department of Homeland Security, airport lines manned by idiots, being the loudest backers of the endless fail of the War on Drugs, and trying to legislate against the Internet and gaming NASA, science and math to synch with their views on religion, the first thing I think of when I think of less obtrusive government is the GOP.
He’s got his finger on the pulse of zombie america, that’s for sure. Keep reaching for that rainbow Jason!
Just wait–after this election, it’s going to be a death match between those who think the Republican Party has gone too far to the right (and thus alienated a majority of voters), and those who think it has been way too moderate and thus failed to attract all the true conservative voters.
Rush Limbaugh is leading the charge from the extreme right, and his fellow travelers have managed to insinuate themselves into all levels of the Republican Party apparatus. So my guess is that the extreme lunatics are going to win control of the Party. And that should make for two or three very interesting election cycles as they march further and further to the right, convinced that if only they could be yet more extreme, they would be more popular.
I’m sorry, but how is Young America supposed to take him seriously with that haircut?
My friends, the Young America’s Foundation is not strong…
Thanks to you who actually watched the whole thing; I bailed at the halfway point. I had trouble understanding him and I was annoyed by the way he bobbed and weaved.
Young America… is that anything like Young Earth?
Jason is simply awesome. Every time he shows up on teh intertubes I feel so much smarter. Of course, when my dog sees him, she feels the same way…
Maybe he should try going with a less lobotomized look? Oh, and getting his basic facts straight probably wouldn’t hurt either.
Yo, this is Jason Mattera in the HOUSE! To tell you that poverty and war are the SHIZZLE! And whites-only scholarships like the one me and my dogs at the College Republicans started back at Roger Williams University are the BOMB, yo!
Hey, where’s everybody going?
Right you are TW. My pet flatworm loves its’s Mattera bigtime. If it could talk, it would sing his praises as an intellectual peer. If there is a Supreme Being, I beseech you to make Mattera the future of the GOP.
Everything Mattera said turned out to be wrong? There’s just one thing to do: Ambush interview!!
Young people don’t want government to tell them which “intimate sites” they can browse? Really? Damn, I was thinking a good use of tax dollars would be to have Jason and his homeboys make up a list of their favorite porn sites so we could post it for kids who are aren’t as likely to find these places without government help. A redistribution of URLs.
Jason, Honey, you’re not getting laid anytime soon. Might as well enlist, like all your conservative youth friends.
Is that a haircut or cleverly applied varnish?
A grisly bad haircut ist das Opium des Volkes
OTH, I’ve seen that haircut and heard that soundtrack in a recent porn involving a young male fluffer…
Why is he worried about the Ute vote? McCain will likely carry Utah anyway.
Oh, youth vote. Never mind.
Everything Mattera said turned out to be wrong?
Hey look! Bloody Bill’s heir apparent!
McCain also had major FAIL with his spreading the wealth=socialism malarkey. I mean, maybe it would have gone over if he’d been speaking to an audience of filthy rich greedy bankers, but blue collar workers who can’t afford health insurance? If they’re dumb they’ll hear “socialism” and vote for the asshole. If they’ve got a quarter of a brain they’ll realize he’s doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the middle class or the working poor.
And that should make for two or three very interesting election cycles as they march further and further to the right, convinced that if only they could be yet more extreme, they would be more popular.
So where do they go from here? Use undocumented immigrants to test the sharpness of their swords? Advocate a return to “Whites-Only” facilities? Encourage the South to re-secede?
That reminds me, how’re the Romney Hard Body Boys, um, servicing these days?
I’m hoping they push secession for every red state that gets more in federal dollars than they contribute, with Alaska at the top of the list. The Head Dude would be so pleased.
“Yout?” What’s a “yout?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1V-4boT_ts
Jason is sort of the poor man’s Brian Austin Greene.