Young People: The Key To Republican Single-Party Rule, by Thom Hartmann

[AG78]

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0321-24.htm

Democrats and progressives make the mistake of thinking that today's Social Security debate is about Social Security. It's not. It's about creating single party rule for a generation or more. To do that, Republicans believe they need only to grab the hearts and minds of the generation currently under 30 - and they can do that, win or lose, by properly framing the Social Security debate.

According to exit poll data from the Associated Press, under-30 voters were up more than nine percent in voter participation in 2004, bringing 4.6 million new young people into the polls just since 2000.

[villager]

1. good article; still the Repubes can't control everything:

especially the coming eco-reckoning. I'm not sure their "chess moves" take any kind of natural limits into account...

[mattclearing]

2. Yeah, but they weren't voting for the other side.

Young people were the only demographic Kerry decisively won, fraud or not.

[Wilms]

3. kick n/t