[net-gold] UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM INDUSTRY : POLITICS: ELECTIONS AND ELECTION CAMPAIGNS: Social Issues Focus May Weaken Youth Support For Republicans
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- Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:13:57 -0500 (EST)
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UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM INDUSTRY :
POLITICS: ELECTIONS AND ELECTION CAMPAIGNS:
Social Issues Focus May Weaken Youth Support For Republicans
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Social Issues Focus May Weaken Youth Support For Republicans
By Patricia Zengerle
Reuters
February 25, 2012
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/24/
elections-2012-gop-social-issues_n_1299699.html
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FAIRFAX, Virginia--Colleen Wilson has all the makings of a foot soldier
for whichever Republican becomes the nominee to oppose President Barack
Obama in the November election.
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The Virginia college student comes from a conservative family and
describes herself as a Republican. She is an intern at the county
Republican committee and paid her own way to attend the prominent
Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington this month.
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Her support should be a given for a Republican in Virginia, one of the
closely contested "swing states" where the 2012 presidential election will
likely be decided.
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But it's not.
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"I may vote for Obama," said Wilson, who is 19. "It's possible. I can't
say now, but I'm not ruling it out."
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The George Mason University student, like a majority of her peers, is a
moderate on social issues. She supports gay marriage and some abortion
rights and has been turned off by the strident "culture wars" now creeping
back into U.S. politics.
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She had planned to vote for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney
because of his business experience and ideas for fixing the U.S. economy,
but said inflammatory rhetoric at CPAC made her wonder if she could vote
for any of the party's candidates this year.
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"It scares me how extreme they are on social conservatism," she said. "It
wasn't that they didn't believe in gay marriage. It was how vicious and
closed minded they were."
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As former Senator Rick Santorum, a devout Catholic, emerged as a
front-runner, the Republican White House hopefuls have increasingly
promoted conservative views on social issues such as candidates'
opposition to abortion rights and gay marriage has broadened to criticism
of contraception, prenatal testing and questioning of Obama's religious
beliefs.
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The Republican hopefuls say they are just defending religious freedom.
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But the shift could be devastating for the party in a year when the key to
defeating Obama could be paring back his overwhelming popularity with
voters under 30.
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Participation by young people in Republican primary races is down compared
to four years ago and pollsters are seeing signs that the culture wars
could weaken support for Republicans among younger voters.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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