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Obama Talks Jobs, the Deficit, Drugs and More in YouTube Interview
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyYou could call it the iPresidency. On Thursday President Obama sat down for an interview streamed on YouTube and the White House website, answering questions submitted by citizens on a range of topics, including jobs, the economy, health care and even drug legalization and the Super Bowl. Obama's appearance reflected the (highly successful) 2008 campaign strategy and was part of a concerted effort by the administration to communicate directly with the public -- and perhaps lay the groundwork for the 2012 re-election bid. Using non-traditional, digital media platforms such as Twitter, ...
Millennials Missing from the Midterms
By Kevin Brennan - Politics DailyDespite last-minute appeals from both parties, a slightly smaller percentage of America's youth voted Tuesday compared with the 2006 midterm elections. Just 20 percent of 18-to-29-year-old registered voters cast ballots, according to exit poll projections by CIRCLE, a Tufts University group that studies youth voter behavior. The turnout rate for young voters in 2006 was 26 percent. Peter Levine, director of CIRCLE, said the 20 percent turnout rate was not particularly unusual for a midterm election year. Experts suggested that if both political parties and individual campaigns had more ...
Obama Stays on Friendly Turf in the Final Push to November
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyBetween mouthfuls of Top Pot Donuts in Seattle, shouts of "Woof! Woof!" to cheer on the Washington State Huskies, and signing autographs for young admirers in Palo Alto, President Obama has been working the crowds as hard as any time since the harried-but-halcyon campaign days of 2008. In the final push before this year's midterm elections, Obama is on an extended road trip, hitting seven states in the last 10 days before Nov. 2. Rallying capacity crowds is nothing new for the president, but what's most notable about this jag of fundraisers and speeches is that they're all happening on ...
Obama's Town Halls Target Young Voters -- But Are the Kids Tuned In?
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyThis week, the president logged considerable time trying to determine whether the kids are alright -- or in fact, whether the kids don't stand a chance. Speaking at two youth-focused town halls in an effort to gin up his base of 18- to 29-year-old voters, Obama took his message to millennials at George Washington University (on Tuesday) and BET studios in Washington (on Thursday) for an MTV-sponsored forum. With little more than two weeks to go before the midterm elections, the president was making his appeal to a base that remains strong in its support: though approval for the president ...
Michelle Obama's Plea to Democrats: 'Don't Stay Home'
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyWith less than month until the election -- and early voting about to start in many states -- First Lady Michelle Obama finally jumped in the political fray on Wednesday, trying to fire up younger Democrats in a 12-minute conference call sponsored by the grassroots organizing arm of the Democratic National Committee. "Don't stay home," Mrs. Obama pleaded. Mrs. Obama hosted the political pep talk for the DNC's Organizing for America division, the unit created to absorb the Obama for America presidential campaign. It marked the first time Mrs. Obama has personally spoken out on behalf of ...
College Republicans Urge Youth to Break Up With Obama
By Kevin Brennan - Politics DailySome college students have broken up with their former crush, President Barack Obama, and they want their peers to follow suit. That's the message of a political ad released last week by the College Republican National Committee. The satirical spot called "The Break Up" is running near college campuses in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida and has gotten more than 50,000 views on YouTube as of Tuesday morning. Click play below to watch the video: The College Republicans spent $9,700 on the commercial, the first television ad buy in the group's history, apparently sensing an opportunity to ...
Young Voters Cooling Off on Obama, New Poll Reveals
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyThe swelling wave of young voters that helped carry Barack Obama and the Democrats to a historic victory in 2008 has flattened out, weakened by disappointment and cynicism, a new nationwide Rock the Vote poll reveals. Important to both parties in this midterm cycle, a plurality of this voting bloc of 18-to-29-year-olds is focused on major issues including jobs, the economy, the cost and quality of education and the national debt, while saying it doesn't matter which party is in control of Congress. The young, according to the survey, are turning their attention to bread-and-butter issues ...
Good Poll Numbers for the GOP May Be As Much Anti-Democrat As Pro-Republican
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe big lead that Republicans notched in a Gallup survey this week on a "generic" congressional ballot may be due as much to voters' rejection of the Democrats as their embrace of Republicans, the pollster said. While 48 percent of those surveyed said the reason for their choice was "more a vote for the Republican candidate," 44 percent said it was more a vote against the Democrat. Five percent answered "both equally" and 2 percent were undecided. The Gallup survey this week that made news by finding a 51-percent-to-41-percent Republican advantage was based on its tracking poll conducted ...
Democrats Plow Money Into Risky Plan for Energizing New Voters in Midterms
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyThe Democratic Party is laying down a $50 million bet that it can breathe into the midterm elections the kind of energy and enthusiasm among new voters that President Obama's campaign generated in overwhelming the Republicans in 2008, the Washington Post reports. The move carries many risks. There's the question of whether the same strategy will work in a year that Obama's name is not actually on the ballot. It uses resources that otherwise would go in an off-year election to turning out the party base. And it comes in a year where polls have shown that the voters really excited about the ...
Youthful Impatience With a Young Administration
By Alex Keefe - Politics DailyMaybe it's because he called Kanye West a "jackass." Or maybe it's because his presidential news conferences aren't as high-energy as his campaign rallies. Though the under-30 set voted for Barack Obama overwhelmingly last November, a group of political experts believe those same young people – once so enamored of their fist-bumping, hoops-shooting presidential candidate – seem less enthusiastic now that he's is actually in office. ...
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