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FORT COLLINS, Colo. The college vote is up for grabs this year to an extent that would have seemed unlikely two years ago, when a generation of young people seemed to swoon over Barack Obama.
Though many students are liberals on social issues, the economic reality of a weak job market has taken a toll on their loyalties: far fewer 18- to 29-year-olds now identify themselves as Democrats compared with 2008.
Is the recession, which is hitting young people very hard, doing lasting or permanent damage to what looked like a good Democratic advantage with this age group? asked Scott Keeter, the director of survey research at the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan group. The jury is still out.