Friday, 7 November 2008
Forgetting The Carter Years
Many conservatives coming into this election were a bit astonished that a hard core leftist like Obama could win the presidency. Especially after the debacle that was the Carter presidency. The last hard core leftist elected to the office.
I started looking at the internal polls from the election and the reason for the loss struck me. Check out the following numbers and see if you can spot it.
The first thing I noticed is that Obama won the election because he dominated the younger demographics. That is when it hit me. Obama won with people who DON'T remember the Carter years. I am in the middle of the 30-44 age group and I can honestly say I don't remember the Carter years. I remember that he was president, but I don't remember the woes of his administration. If I don't remember them then it is fair to say that most people in my age group don't either. And heck, almost all of the 18-29 age group weren't even alive when Carter was president.
Interestingly, McCain actually won among voters who are old enough to remember the Carter years. What we have here is a failure of the younger generation to understand the destructiveness of liberalism. They have no personal contact with its corrosive power. And they obviously haven't learned the lessons history teach us about liberalism. (Of course that doesn't surprise me given the level of education today) So I guess we are forced to learn the hard way, again, why liberals shouldn't be allowed to run our country.
I started looking at the internal polls from the election and the reason for the loss struck me. Check out the following numbers and see if you can spot it.
| Age | Obama | McCain |
| 18-29 | 66% | 32% |
| 30-44 | 52% | 46% |
| 45-64 | 50% | 49% |
| 65 + | 45% | 53% |
The first thing I noticed is that Obama won the election because he dominated the younger demographics. That is when it hit me. Obama won with people who DON'T remember the Carter years. I am in the middle of the 30-44 age group and I can honestly say I don't remember the Carter years. I remember that he was president, but I don't remember the woes of his administration. If I don't remember them then it is fair to say that most people in my age group don't either. And heck, almost all of the 18-29 age group weren't even alive when Carter was president.
Interestingly, McCain actually won among voters who are old enough to remember the Carter years. What we have here is a failure of the younger generation to understand the destructiveness of liberalism. They have no personal contact with its corrosive power. And they obviously haven't learned the lessons history teach us about liberalism. (Of course that doesn't surprise me given the level of education today) So I guess we are forced to learn the hard way, again, why liberals shouldn't be allowed to run our country.
Posted by at 6:20 PM in National Politics
