The most amazing political chart I ever saw talked about this.. They found like an 80% correlation based on who was leading the country when an individual was around 12 years of age..
So it's not young/old, it's who was in power in your early 'formative years'.. and then we tend to vote the same way..
For me it's Eisenhower..
An amazing analysis.. We like who we grew-up with.. Nothing changes us that much.. Not age, for sure..
Cheers......

Roberts: Well, regardless of what we talk about this morning, the Dow is going to go off a cliff again today so let me turn to politics if I could.

A lot of people have said, particularly because of the economy, this is a bad year to be a Republican. John McCain behind in the national polls, seems to be behind in the battleground states as well. He's got a long and difficult road if he hopes to win the Oval Office.

If Republicans really take a beating, Congressman Paul, on November the 4th, where does that leave the Republican brand?

Paul: Well, I think they're in big trouble, but I think I mentioned that a year or so ago, that they've sort of lost their way. No, it's going to be a lot worse, but you have to say that the markets aren't being reassured about the obvious victory that's going to occur.

Then they said, "Oh, my, you know, we're going to have Obama and a Democratic Congress stronger than ever so things are going to get a lot better." They haven't discounted that yet.

The country is in a mess regardless, but I think the Republican Party really in a mess because ...

Roberts: I mean, I mean how ...

Paul: ... they'll probably lose a fair amount of seats again.

Roberts: How bad a blow could it be and how long might it take the party to rebuild?

Paul: You know, I was first elected -- I first ran in 1974, and I think there were about 145 members of Congress, Republicans, then. It took 20 years. So that is the case.

For several years, conservative intellectuals have argued that, to survive, the party needs to adapt its economic message to address the insecurities of the culturally conservative working class. This populist GOP, they argue, would offer more than just the pro-life, anti-tax party. It would offer a vision of how limited government can promote strong families and grow the middle class. The intelligentsia look at Republican governors such as Louisiana's Bobby Jindal and Minnesota's Tim Pawlenty—thoughtful conservatives who have a touch with the common man—and see reasons for hope. But what the intellectuals have not always acknowledged is that there is an easier, if less utopian, way to speak to the anxieties of working America: full-fledged culture war.

2016 can come soon enough for us real conservatives and Bobby Jindal.

About young people, I remember young people loved Ronald Regan considering you had such great figures as Walter Mondale leading the other side. lol.


However things are way different and the fact the GOP has ignored young people, will cost them big time for a long time.

I think what is going to cost them more is the amount of Latinos that are supporting Obama/the Democratic Party. Seeming that they are the fastest growing demographic in the states and in the future will represent more and more of the country, the Republicans can be in a for a very long stay in the wilderness if they don't address them.

I think it's really difficult to pin down. With their strategy of targeting white southern Christianist whackos, Republicans have alienated EVERY other demographic. It's really quite something to behold.

That is very true. I was thinking however of what demographic would be able to bring out the Republicans from the wilderness more easily than any other and I think it would be the Latinos. Of course the Republicans would have to change/adapt some of their current viewpoints (ie illegal immigration, health care and especially the war in Iraq), but by sure numbers that could help them. On the other hand there may be other demographics that require less adaption..