Millennials – which for those of you keeping score at home are Americans aged 18-29 – are done with Barack Obama.
The demographic that swept Obama to office in 2008 wants nothing to do with his socialized medicine law, according to a new Harvard University Institute of Politics study. In fact 57 percent of millennials oppose Obama’s law – and 52 percent of younger millennials (those aged 18-24) actually want to recall Obama from office.
Most troubling for Obama – who desperately needs healthy young people to sign up for Obamacare – more than half of millennials say they will not participate in the program even if they are eligible for its subsidies.
Ruh-robamacare!
“There are very few aspects of the health-care initiative that they approve of,” John Della Volpe, the institute’s polling director, told reporters. “They think quality will decrease, that prices will increase, so it’s not surprising that has taken a significant hit to the president’s approval rating.”
Wow … you know it’s hard to believe all those “Brosurance” and “Hoe-surance” ads didn’t do the trick, isn’t it?
Oh well … Obama is mounting a three week public relations blitz in support of the law (beginning with a White House “youth summit”). And we all know how charming his teleprompter can be, don’t we?
Harvard surveyed 2,089 millennials between October 30 and November 11. Its results have a margin of error of plus or minus 2.1 percentage points.
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So does this mean they won’t vote for him in the next election? I believe that train has already left the station or as Hillary might say, what difference does it make now?
Yes, they are all running out to vote for the next GOP candidate for president… Bwaaaahaaaahaaa. The Harvard Institute of Politics is run by Trey Grayson so I’m sure it wasn’t a “right leaning” survey.
My point was that Obama will not be a candidate for anything, so what do his “ratings” matter?
I understand that. I was just commenting.
Just to refresh everyone’s memory: Trey Grayson was the Republican Secretary of State for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and was Mitch McConnell’s pick to run for the US Senate seat being vacated by Jim Bunning, but then Rand Paul kicked his ass in the primary.
That crowd bounces from one new thing to another, a fad if you will. They make one bar the hottest thing since sliced bread and a year later it goes under and another bar is the hottest thing. I’m very surprised that he was able to hold on to them for as long as he did, most of them were probably just rebelling. If they drop out all together the next two elections could be quite surprising.
Those aged 18-26 don’t have to sign up if their parent(s)/guardian(s) can cover them through that time. Oh, but let’s conveniently forget a vast majority of that 18-29 age group, right?
Wonder how many of those Millennials support a more liberal approach to reforming health care, such as the public option or single payer? Oh, right, we don’t ask those kinds of questions because it shrinks the percentage of people one can pretend who would rather see the repeal with no replacement, can’t do that!
The Harvard Institute of Politics is run by Trey Grayson so I’m sure it wasn’t a “right leaning” survey.
Yeah, sure…now they’re all wishing they had voted for “Mittens” Romney.
“Those aged 18-26 don’t have to sign up if their parent(s)/guardian(s) can cover them through that time. Oh, but let’s conveniently forget a vast majority of that 18-29 age group, right?”
What’s great about this selective enforcement is that it disproportionately taxes or forces youths whose parents are poor to pony up for expensive insurance that most don’t need, making it even harder for them to rise above their parents income level.
Viva Egalitarianism!
In due time the Government will own our health care, just like it owns our homes and automobiles. Think not, don’t pay your property taxes and see how long before the Government takes your home from you or gives you a license plate for your car. Wonder how many of the millennials have thought about that.
They have punched themselves in the face and are just starting to realize it.
The Obamacare tax will weight heavy on them as a reminder. I suspect many here over 40 years old didn’t have health insurance in their twenties, nor could they have afforded it. If they were saddled at that time with more taxes or had to pay for it, many might not have been successful on making it on their own during that time and probably would have had to move back in with the parents.
It’s just more generational wealth confiscation. The young people will now have to overpay to subsidize the already bloated boomer parasites that have been feasting financially on its own youth.
I remember when the stoners were the bad guys.
Loyalties change, eh?
They got him elected back into office, at this point the Obama campaigners don’t care who backs them.