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CHAPEL HILL, NC -- A recent NBC/WSJ poll found that young voters might not be as enthusiastic about the 2012 election as they were in 2008. Even at President Obama’s event at UNC Chapel Hill on Tuesday, where he kicked off his two-day tour talking about student loan interest rates, there were varying levels of excitement.
A grain-of-salt alert: These interviews were all conducted at the event, among students who waited in line for hours to see President Obama, so they may not be the most representative sample of all young North Carolina voters. They do, however, offer a glimpse into how some of Obama’s young 2008 supporters are feeling about the election today.
NBC caught up with some UNC-Chapel Hill students at President Obama's speech on Tuesday and asked about their enthusiasm for the 2012 election.
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If anyone can get out the youth vote, it is the president. They are a little too busy with finals to get really excited, but wait until they hear about their student loan interest rates this summer. They will know what to do in November.
So, just exactly how many students did MSNBC talk to?
I got this video @ youtube which certainly drowns her voice out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT3Nz4ZY8VE
Notice the excitement, the loud clapping, people groping to shake hands with the President, and the size of the crowd.
"It's our turn to keep the promise alive"
MSNBC please stop feeding the right wing trolls!!!!
Obama/Biden 2012
A whopping (3)... lol
All you have to do is look at the faces of those behind the President and compare them to the ones behind Willard trying their best to stifle a *yawn*!
Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL
All you have to do is look at the faces of those behind the President and compare them to the ones behind Willard trying their best to stifle a *yawn*!
My point exactly, Fiesty. I was so moved to see the people groping to shake hands with our Presdient.
Willard was unzipped there; and gave his best perfomance last night. Still, the people were unmoved in contrast to the way people were today and last night with our President.
You could almost feel the vibrations from the President rocking the house here in Chicago.
'so they may not be the most representative sample of all young'
NBC/WSJ you should use a disclaimer like this on all polls rather than that 'margin of error' nothingness!
Please don't go there GF - the thought of Willard's woody makes me throw up a little in my mouth! lol
We sure could! ☺
Please don't go there GF - the thought of Willard's woody makes me throw up a little in my mouth! lol
LOL, Fiesty
I'm thinking the people in the room thought the same thing. No wonder they were so stiff. All our President has to do is step into the room and the crowd goes bananas.
Should I mention his handsome smile and cool cucumber style?
These two are what passes for the Big O chinnut supporters..
Thank the baby Jesus there are not enough of you.
They really loved him at Fenway, didn't they Bev?
Where is Fenway anyway?...Mississippi? "Bama? South Carolina? Damn! I know it's in one of those "red" states. Help me out.
You know - I keep hearing this rumor, but, for some reason can't find anything to back it up - you got a video or audio to back up your accusation?
PS: Even News for DumbFux doesn't have any...
Since you don't get off your plump derrier to even go to the bathroom to take a piss (catheter queen)and it's not favorable to Obama, nor did it appear on First Read, it doesn't surprise me. You are a chinnut Big O supporter. Good for you
Lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala
Romney in a landslide.
BTW...there is audio. And commentary. Look it up yourself.
Commentary? LMFAO! I want to HEAR it...
Ummm... personal attacks aside - I HAVE and cannot find them...
Surely YOU will share to back up your bull@!$%#.... right?
Why are you so afraid to share?
Unless you can back up your accusations - YOU will be considered to be a pathological serial liar & epic fail...Goober!
weery one -- Young voters are pretty consistent in percentage of turn-out to vote. What will matter is how much of their vote will go to which candidate.
They are not single-issue voters. Sure they are concerned about student loans, but they are more concerned about a good-paying job to pay off that debt. Occupy is a good example of young voters -- they are against inequality and greed and corruption in politics (think Citizens United, ALEC, etc.). And most of all they are not supportive of the religious wedge issues.
Fisty
there is this new internet thing called G-O-O-G-L-E. Why don't you put down the scales and your crack pipe, tell that 14 year old to "just say no" and look it up yourself? It's there. Do some honest work for once chinnut.
TP,
You are absolutely right, which is why they will not vote for Obama. Simply because your naive-led-by-the-nose little world vision prohibits your growth does not mean others think the same as you.I would think quite the contrary.
As this particular story points out. People want opportunity and Obama's vision is not working.
Which is WHY I asked you to back up your claim - sorry Goober - game over! lol
You are dismissed & thanks for playing!
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=obama%20booed%20at%20fenway&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CCMQtwIwBA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DrQjyD4pb9yQ&ei=gZ6YT4vmEKbx6AGG3tHnBg&usg=AFQjCNF2dMKWvC0qip8mP5UQQ3c4MAiKLg
There you go dumb fux....you should google the stories on him being booed the comments are hysterical -- time for this unpopular failure to slink back to his safe confines.
Obviously your incompetent, handout seeking, somebody-else-do-it-for-me initiative have failed you yet again.
Let me spell it for you again, apparently your indoctrination "education" has let you down, GOOGLE. Try "Obama booed at Fenway" you semi-literate sycophant.
Chinnuts are hilarious. And soon to be extinct.
Umm NO - you made the accusation & YOU need to back up your bull@!$%#!
I have googled IT for two days straight & still cannot find an audio tape to back up your claim...
Come on, for once in your miserable existance - stand up and take credit! lmao
Evidently, you and Obama share the same trait of incompetence.
Two days? Takes two seconds!
No one should ever make a claim as “fact” unless they can
back up the claim with a citation/link.
If anyone cannot support their claim with a citation then
it should be considered to be untrue.
Thank you Rob in ma
I was not going to give the chinnut incompetent left leaning bloodsucking ho-dog the satisfaction. We need to teach the lazy to do things for themselves.
That includes you Dennis
2.13 post has the link. And a friend of mine was one of the 37,000 people voicing their disgust with the failure in the White House!
Keep your head stuck in the ground there moonbats!
Can't blame you weary. Even when you provide proof positive they still don't get it.
I don't know what's going on with the polls. But I work in the healthcare industry up here in Massachusetts. Lefties abound yet the large majority of people I talk with absolutely can't stand Obama. I meant hey really can't stand him.
It'll become plain in November.
That's your idea of PROOF? LMFAO!
Stay stuck in stupid - it suits you perfectly!
First Read headlined recently its poll in Virginia that put the President way ahead..but silence on two recent Virginia polls, Rasmussen and Roanoke College, that have Romney very slightly ahead...
Virginia, North Carolina and Indiana are 3 states that Obama won in 2008, that definitely will not vote for him again.
Bob in Virginia-5210392
Rasmussen and Roanoke College polls???
How many times do I have to tell you FOX- mussen polls don't count. Seven polls have proved FOX viewers know less than people who don't watch any news at all.
Bob, you may be right about Indiana, but I don't see Mitt winning in NC or VA. Very strong democrat organizations in both states, and practically zero enthusiasm for Romney. Don't be fooled by them being southern states; NC and VA have as much in common with Alabama and Mississippi as Conn. does with Montana.
Rassmussen had the last presidential race within .1 % --- the closest of all polling organizations.
Rasmussen is famous for asking loaded questions. The results of their polling are very predictable to Rasmussen, let alone anyone else.
They have a disclaimer at the beginning of the article that the survey was taken when students had been in line a long time before they heard the president speak. I'm sure the results would be different if questions were asked after the speech.
Alot of people are discontented with Obama but alot have no enthusiasm for Romney either.
We will see what the students reactions are in May and June when they can't find jobs. Yesterday I saw an article that 53% of college grads will be under employed or unemployed this summer.
And I still have to ask how a college grad can be underemployed. Was he/she CEO, President, General Manager before they went into college? I think not. If they are underemployed it is due to their own perception of what that degree was going to get them. It does not come with a ticket to a corner office, company car, I-phone, and 6 weeks vacation in the first year.
Suppose you graduate from college. Suppose you have a liberal arts degree.
Suppose the only job you can find is at a fast food joint.
That's under employed.
sfcret
Sarge you are correct. Feisty and Bev got their panties in a twist because their beloved Big "0" got himself exposed right here on MSDNC. I'm sure Ali Weinberg will get numerous internal emails "correcting" her for reporting the facts.
They just can't believe that the Big "Zero" can lose. So really sad.
no joe, no bo, nj
That Hand has no brain. Won't possibly understand your point.
nj,nb,nj - I am always on your side here at FR but, with a liberal arts degree, just what, over and above a factory or server job, are you qualified to jump into? I still have to ask, what did they do before and even possibly during college for work? They aren't underemployed. They have a job no matter what. College degree, especially today in the age of "indoctrination not education" doesn't mean top of the line job coming out. You still have to prove you have the sense to cope with the real world.
While I don't disagree entirely- things were a lot different just a few years ago. My nephew graduated- top honors, degree in anthropology, for crying out loud- and got a job before he graduated- in tech ology.
These kids use and understand computers the way my generation understood telephones. So, he walked out of school into a $50k job in IT.
He's now a vice president.
That labor market occurred during the Bush administration- unemployment was under 5%, which is labor shortage level.
Today? A lot of these kids will be lucky to get jobs delivering newspapers.
And what about the underemployed parents who still have to underwrite their children until age 25, because their children cannot find work and Mom and Dad are working for less than they were 3 years ago.....Those student loans still come due, and nobody has the income, not the kids who graduate and not Mom and Dad either. Even those with qualifications for necessary occupations are hurting. Even the seemingly unlimited IT jobs have dried up. Getting business and industry moving again, means that we all can start paying our own bills and getting on with life.
Throwing a little salt out; how about if MSNBC asks those students attending an Obama event what they think of Mitt Romney? Now, that would give one a real sense of where the youth vote stands.
You have to see a trend developing here. MSDNC is going a little deeper into the "not so thrilled" with Obama camp in some of the recent stories they put out. I wonder what they are posturing themselves for? Possibly a "well we thought we were right with Obama" moment?
From experience, the youth vote is not the most enthusiastic or the most devout...the last presdential election, I remember my son telling me that when you are in school, you are all about school, making professors happy, getting the grades, and your world outlook is pretty limited....He actually said that he felt the the right to vote should be given only to those who work and pay taxes (and for retiree's, they had already worked and paid into the system, so of course they should have a say.) He further said that out of his classmates at school, not one of them could really identify what any candidate stood for, or what any candidate might have said or promised. He did say that the politicos were out in force with clip boards, buying free sodas in the student union, trying to buy the youth votes with Pepsi and a slice of pizza. He felt that the national election of a President was worth more than Pepsi and Pizza, so if that is all kids were basing their votes on, then they may as well not have the right to vote........Pretty profound.
All you'd get is the response of kids standing in line to see Obama..
Tell you what I'd like- lets see them interview kids who went all out for Obama four years ago who can't find jobs.
That would be a lot more interesting.
As would I. The ones I work with are severely disappointed and will not be fooled again. Even some of the 30 and 40 somethings.
I'm not so sure...I graduated last year with a degree and found a job 3 months later. Its all about location and determination, will and want to. Do you really think everyone who graduates should come out smelling like roses with a high paying job? It's work that pays off at jobs to make careers, not the other way around. This economy is turning around whether we like to admit it or not and the graduates this year will have a better shot then last year and so on.
I agree this country is in trouble bad but no matter how you spin it G.W. Bush crashed this economy and he will go down as the modern day Herbert Hoover.
rotthemechanics.....I sincerely hope that you are down on your knees thanking whatever God you choose to believe in for your good fortune, but do not get all sanctimonious, high and mighty and presume to lecture those who have not only your educational credentials, but an extensive work history of practical experience to back up those credentials and who are presently bagging groceries or waiting tables or whatever other menial work you might like to mention in order to honor their obligations. From your limited experience and perspective, things are hunky dory; however, your story is by far the minority experience. Hard working people are on the brink of losing everything that they worked hard to obtain, probably since before you were born. I am one with Suma Cum Laude education, and 30 years of solid work experience who can't get a job that will even pay me what you are probably earning. Moving is not always an option....many of us have children in school to consider. With the housing market shot, we cannot sell the home we have to go to another area, and we can't get financing to get a new one because we don't have the money in the bank for down payment or from the sale of the first home....Yet we are still obligated to make the payments and pay the taxes on the home we have, even though it isn't worth anything any more. I am guessing that you do not yet have the responsibility of mortgage and property taxes or the responsibility of children dependent upon you...perhaps, you don't even have a signficant other to consider. Perhaps, your student loan debt is very manageable....you do not reflect the majority in this country...Don't presume to tell me about hard work.
No one is very excited over the failure-in-chief. Why should they? He stinks.
I do believe Romney is starting to grow on people. It's going to be a Romney landslide in the Reagan/Carter fashion.
women will vote in massive numbers, along with blacks browns are among the millions that mitsy has alienated- his constituency is that of old white angry men and women- numbers are not with him!
We will not forget nor will we forgive!
I do believe Romney is starting to grow on people.
Weery one - Like a big "wart".
Are you referring to that thing on Obama's face? With his free health care and all that money he makes....why doesn't he get it removed?
Are you referring to that thing on Obama's face?
Weery one - Not exactly.
He does have a big wart on his face. Don't tell me you haven't noticed it.
Oh....right.....you only see the top of his rectum.
weery one wrote:
Oh....right.....you only see the top of his rectum.
Me:
I would have thought it would be the other way around since you seem to be implying that Obama is screwing everybody. The view that YOU usually see is a belly button.
So, did anybody ask Obama his opinion on the measure up for vote in North Carolina that would ban both gay marriage AND civil unions?
Early voting started last week- wouldn't you think that, since he's down there on the tax payer dime, he'd weigh in on that, instead of his strawman argument about Stafford loan interest rates?
Speaking of which, did anybody ask him about his missing the vote that lowered the interest rates on those loans? Seems he was too busy campaigning to bother showing up to vote.
How about the harassment scandal roiling the democratic party down there? He have anything to say about that? Maybe ask where the funds for the secret settlement came from?
No, huh?
Didn't think so.
In regards to the proposed Amendment to the state constitution - This is another one of those damned if you do/ damned if you dont issues that you are so masterful in manipulating. Right now - you are criticizing Obama for not saying anything, if he makes a statement before May 8th (when the people of NC will vote on it) you will be all over him about trying to influence a state issue and that he should not say anything.
Missing the vote on student loan rates? Do you think he has a vote? I thought his vote was in the form of either a veto or signing the bill into law.
How does a harrassment scandal in NC affect Obama? Do you think the scandals with John Ensign, Mark Sanford, Larry Craig, Mark Foley, etc etc affected McCain? His problem was not being able to muzzle Sarah Palin (and allowing the RNC to force her on him in the first place). This is for the DNC chair to handle, not Obama. Why do you think everything bad that happens is Obama's fault and fail to recognize any of the good things he does.
Talk about straw man arguments!!