Avorysuds
Gold Member
Seriously. People keep talking about Paul's youth appeal as though somehow it's a negative. What are you going to do when all the old white men on viagra eventually die off and these youth become the next generation of potential republican voters? Accept them or continue to alienate them?What you are not seeing is that the youth is what makes the future base of that party. In the Primaries Paul won about 40-50% of the youth vote in near all states. That is the youth vote that actually votes, as you asked for. In 4 years these people will talk to people around their age, that mindset will grow while older Republicans 60+ years old talk to no one. The Republican party of old is literally going to die off, there is a bigger picture here.
Paul's actual vote count from 4 years ago has near tripled. Romney's has shrunk... Think about that for a second. While yes, Mitt gets more votes in the primaries overall he is pulling from a shrinking poll of voters as the Republican party is splintered. When I say splintered I dont mean like by preference, I mean like civil war. The Republican party seemed to learn nothing from McCain.
It Mitt can not beat a President as bad as Obama the Republican party might in fact never win a GE for many elections to come.
The GOP has a demographic problem. Paul supporters make up the demographics the GOP is lacking. Why you guys don't want them is beyond me.
I never said the youth group were a negative. But let's be serious here, they aren't exactly a dependable voting block and they are easily swayed with group think as displayed with ows, obwmwbots and college game rioting.
Like I said, Paul won 40-50% of the youth vote in the primaries and caucuses... That's not the GE where people are way more likely to vote. I'm not saying Paul would win the youth vote by that kind of margin in the GE, but as for the primaries of the youth willing to vote he owned the youth vote that IS willing to show up and vote. THAT will translate to votes in the future of the party. Also Paul does very well in the non youth vote, but as it climbs in age he does very poor. Again, the Republicans base where Paul does so poor is like 65+ years old... What, 2 more elections and Republicans lose 20-30% of that base vote?