The Ring of Fire: Mike Papantonio: 'Why Young Voters Are Leaving GOP'

Source:The Ring of Fire- Ben Adler writes for The Nation Magazine.

"Republicans have done an amazing job in the last few months of alienating essentially every voter that isn't a wealthy, older, white male. Their voter ID laws have affectively alienated minorities, their regressive policies towards women have pushed female voters away from them, and their lack of concern over education and student loans has left young voters looking elsewhere for politicians to vote for. So, at the end of the day, do Republicans have any shot at winning over the hearts and minds of young voters? Mike Papantonio attempts to answer that question with Ben Adler, a contributing writer for the Nation magazine." 

From The Ring of Fire

Young American voters (let's say people 18-34) get stereotyped and this has been going on at least since the 1960s when the Baby Boomer started coming of age, as left-wingers, people who love big government socialism, who think the Federal Government should be doing a lot more for them and the country as a whole, who claim that they don't mind paying higher taxes to get more government in their lives. And yet, there's no such thing as a monolithic voting bloq in America. 

Young voters regardless of their political ideology and party, vote for and follow the politicians who speak to them and talk about the issues that they care about and say they're going to address the issues that this group faces, if they get elected. The Ron Paul movement which has a lot voters who are under 30 in his movement, is a pretty good example of that. 

When Americans are very young, they tend to be the least ideological, simply because they have the least amount or real-world experience as everyone else. They're just starting to figure out what they believe.