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The Desertion Continues

It is 2024 and Biden and the Dems thought they had a magic bullet to help bring in young voters….the student loan forgiveness.

I wrote about this just last month….

The Young Are The Problem

And the news just keeps getting worse for Biden and the Dems….

With the 2024 election just over six months away, President Biden is working with two big thorns in his side that threaten to damage his reelection bid: Israel’s continued war against Hamas in Gaza, and the subsequent campus protests that are roiling colleges and universities across the US. Axios notes that the commander in chief is routinely heckled now at his various public appearances over these topics, but there’s one group in particular that may prove especially worrisome for Biden: young voters from his own party, with support plummeting at an “increasing pace of concern,” Elise Joshi of Gen-Z for Change tells the Hill. More:

  • Poll I: It’s not great news for Biden on this front. A Harvard Youth Poll from last month showed that 45% of young adults ages 18 to 29 would vote for Biden, with 37% for Trump. For context, at this point in the 2020 election, Biden led Trump 60% to 30%.
  • Poll II: In a CNN poll released last month, Biden trailed Trump by 11 percentage points among voters under the age of 35; the poll does note that “Biden’s deficit with voters in that group is driven largely by those who did not vote in 2020.” Once that group was removed from the equation, it’s Trump 47%, Biden 46%.
  • Tweet warning: The Washington Post calls attention to a tweet this week from the College Democrats of America, the DNC’s college arm, which read, “College Democrats’ votes are not to be taken for granted by the Democratic Party. We reserve the right to criticize our party when it fails to listen to us.” The Post notes that this points out another challenge for Team Biden: “Even young people who are Democrats often aren’t super strong Democrats.”
  • Still: In a lengthier statement cited by the New York Times, the College Democrats stress that they’re “committed to the reelection of President Biden and Democrats across down-ballot races in every corner of our nation.”
  • James Carville: The Democratic strategist concurs that there are red flags. “It’s horrifying our numbers among younger voters, particularly younger Blacks, younger Latinos … younger people of color. Particularly males,” he said in his podcast last month, per the New York Post. “We’re not shedding them—they’re leaving in … droves.”
  • Young progressives: Biden needs them in his corner, per NPR, which takes a look back at how Biden teamed up with former presidential rival Bernie Sanders four years ago, after Sanders dropped out of the race, to draw in voters from the Sanders camp. The outlet suggests he’ll have to work even harder to do so this time around.
  • Voter chat: PBS talked with four young constituents in the expected swing state of Michigan, with only one of them saying they’d cast a vote for Biden. Check out their conversation here.

Does not look good for Biden according to recent polls….but does the Dems and Biden have another ‘magic bullet’ in their bag of whimsy?

I say they do not….for the young are seeing the Dems as no better than Repubs….both are greedy and very corruptible.

This is a very interesting turn of events….and the Dems are too thick to see the problem.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

19 thoughts on “The Desertion Continues”

  1. It seems incomprehensible to foreigners (like me) that so many Americans will vote for a man who is on trial for a criminal offence, and awaiting trial for many more offences.

    Best wishes, Pete.

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    1. Heck, it’s incomprehensible to me and I live here. He was found guilty of actual sexual assault in a civil trial, was found guilty of tax fraud for inflating the value of his properties to get tax breaks, there is actual video and audio recordings of him bragging about physically assaulting women. He had cameo appearances in actual porn videos. There is audio of him making very disturbing comments about his own daughter’s body. He and his father committed tax fraud in a failed attempt to bail out one of his failing Atlantic City casinos. He’s had multiple extra-marital affairs. At least 14 women have accused him of sexual assault. And that’s just the stuff we know about.

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  2. My Election Blather To All….

    This is the one election we can certainly classify as a “battle”. A battle that every voting American can help fight (for a change perhaps), rather than just accepting voter apathy swayed by poll results. This battle will not be won in some damn courtroom trying to take Trump to task figuring that will sway votes. Forget that. This battle will not be won watching some idiotic TV debate between two old guys that have outlived their usefulness, that proves nothing. Forget that. This battle will not be won by screaming and yelling at each other to emphasize our national divide, rather than moving anyone over to “our” side. Forget that nonsense. There is no way this battle will be won by political advertising or TV commercials. Forget that as well (you might consider going back to school to learn how to think if you are easily swayed by those misdirected and ill-conceived lies, from either side).

    You wanna be a patriot and fight in this battle? Then get off your ass and vote. Of course this battle is NOT about the voting for the “best” person; it’s all about not letting the other person win. Who’s to blame for this electoral mess? Look in the mirror. In fact, do that before you head out to the polls in November and remember that our outdated election process is NOT about who wins the majority of popular votes. All the winner has to do is win districts on some map, outlined with borders determined entirely by political party expediency… and the rest is left to electoral math. The “loser” can win (and did in 2016). In 2020 there was about 60% voter turnout and prior decades were in the 50% range. Seems a bit shabby turnout to me. So, you say.. not voting in itself speaks for you and you are choosing not to vote? You are a coward in this battle… but you have a choice to be that. Go ahead, throw down your “weapon” and run and leave the fight to the rest of us to either bail you out or lose because you weren’t there to help.

    Very likely this battle will not end with the voting results. It will move into our society and turn pretty nasty, well beyond the cute metaphors and into the streets, regardless who wins. That’s the price we all will pay whoever wins. If my vote is the last fight in the last battle, as least I fought.

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