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1/11/2012 @ 9:42AM |1,199 views
Ron Paul takes the youth vote. Again...
Within five minutes of the closing of the New Hampshire Republican primary polls, two things became clear: 1) Mitt Romney would win the primary; 2) Ron Paul would win the young vote (18 to 29).
The question for both then became: “By how much?”
The answer: “A lot.”
Mitt Romney took 39.4 percent of the vote – clearing the 38 percent market that pundits had set for him.
Paul took a whopping 47 percent of the youth vote – only one percent lower than his 48 percent posting among young Iowa caucus goers.
I had predicted that Paul would win the youth vote, but I imagined it would be closer to 40 percent, given the heightened profile of Huntsman in New Hampshire. Huntsman did take a chunk of the young vote – 14 percent – but the youth numbers of Santorum (8 percent) and Gingrich (3 percent) came in so low, that Paul could still grab his nearly 50 percent...
--<http://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenricher/2012/01/11/ron-paul-takes-the-youth-vote-again
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On Jan 11, 2012, at 2:07 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
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> I couldn't find any data on income, only age. From the NH Polls, Paul
> didn't get that much support from young people. Gingrich actually led
> among youth.
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203436904577153302684032684.html#project%3DNHEXITPOLLS%26articleTabs%3Dinteractive
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> aside from which, I'd guess that you need to get a little more
> granular. young people typically have low incomes since they aren't at
> the top of their career ladder as compared to people 35+. You'd have
> to disaggregate in terms of income and occupation to get a better
> sense of the class orientation, never mind their aspirations.
>
> but as for what Rose was talking about, she was talking about his
> broader spiel, not any of the crap he's said recently to defend
> himself against the racism charge. He doesn't get on stage and go on
> and on about how horrible it is to be a black man caught up in the
> drug war. he *does* get on stage and talk about how our liberty has
> been eroded by the intervention of the state, by a federal government
> out of our control, by increasing legislation regulating businesses,
> and by a "nanny state" that treats adults like children, taking away
> their liberaties in the name of security and safety. etc. That nanny
> state one is another good example of the dog whistle.
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> shag
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