Politico.com, although one of my favorite sites, often fails to get reporting right.
Such is the case with this story.
To start, let me provide evidence that DIRECTLY contradicts what political hack Ben Adler writes. For those to lazy to click the link above, Adler argues that younger voters favor Guilliani and he has one University sponsored poll to prove it.
Apparently he missed the numerous stores as of late detailing younger voters candidate of choice- Ron Paul. A simple Google search, as provided here, would have given him HONEST data to work with. But Apparently being a mouthpiece for the Rudy campaign was more important for this NY educated RINO.
He also DIRECTLY contradicts himself, here.
But those are just side notes. Here are my main beefs with the article:
1) He calls Rudy a ‘moderate’. Excuse me? How is supporting abortion, supporting gay marriage, supporting amnesty a ‘moderate’ position? Seems right out of the Progressive playbook to me.
2) He uses only one poll, a University of New Hampshire/MTV ‘Rock the Vote Poll’, as evidence. The ‘Rock The Vote’ poll is terribly biased- wow big surprise a liberal college teaming up with a liberal television network to produce a poll with liberal results. Sorry MTV, polling NY, Mass and New Hampshire is NOT the pulse of America’s youth. Next time, try spreading out your data over all geographic areas.
3) He completely misses the point:
Younger voters are more likely to get their political information from television and less from newspapers than older voters, Smith added. Romney’s intense campaigning in New Hampshire has not had the same effect on them that it has had on older voters.
Younger voters don’t get there information from TV or newspapers because we were raised with the internet.
But that is not the point. The point here is that Adler is serving as another MSM trying socially engineer your vote DESPITE the facts! People like him don’t care that more young people have donated time AND money to the Ron Paul campaign than to the Rudy campaign. People like him only care about University/.Edu polling which no longer has dominance it once had in the youth market thanks to the availability of information on the internet. Great a New Hampshire college campus is pro-Rudy, but that doesn’t represent America Ben. Look at the data.
It drives me stark-raving mad that that the media is playing up younger voters as uneducated, ignorant and socially liberal. It directly contradicts what many have noted as the ‘family time’ generation. The role of the internet in reaching out to younger voters cannot be overlooked.
Ron Paul hasn’t. That is were most of his support comes from.
But what is even more disturbing here is how the media, through the communist tactic of incrementalism is now referring to ‘gay-marriage’, amnesty, and pro-abortion as ‘moderate’ positions. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is an assault of accept political norms and it is a battle that conservatives cannot back down on. Simply accepting the liberal creep into the Republican midst is why so many people have turned against the Republican party.
We have to return to our values. Less taxes, less government, family values.
That means no socialized medicine, no gay-marriage, no amnesty and certainly no acceptance of abortion.
That also means no Rudy.
And for the record, I am a young voter. And no, I don’t lean moderate or for Rudy. But who asked me anyway??