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Obama Losing Rock-star Status Among Young Voters

RNB Wrote: Apr 30, 2012 2:33 AM

It's not cool to try too hard. Obama has lost his edge with hipsters because h now has a record to defend, and he's part of the establishment keeping student's living in their mother's basements. When you live in mommies basement long enough you either stay there on voting day or start looking for a grown-up to help you out.

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Obama Losing Rock-star Status Among Young Voters

Last week, Barack Obama delivered speeches at universities in Chapel Hill, N.C., Iowa City, Iowa, and Boulder, Colo. The trip was, press secretary Jay Carney assured us, official government business, not political campaigning.

It's part of a pattern. Neil Munro of the Daily Caller has counted 130 appearances by the president, vice president, their spouses, White House officials, and Cabinet secretaries at colleges and universities since spring 2011.

Obviously, the Obama campaign strategists are worried that he cannot duplicate his 66 to 32 percent margin among young voters back in 2008.

Recent surveys of young people show...

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