Young voters increasingly identify with conservative politics

Young people have figured out you can't put food on the table on just Obama hope.

From a story in The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review by Salena Zito:

A recent Pew Research Center report said 40 percent of voters ages 18 to 28 lean Republican, up from 30 percent last year. Fifty-four percent of those voters said they lean Democratic, down from 62 percent last year.

n the 2008 presidential election, voters ages 18 to 29 backed President Obama over Arizona Sen. John McCain by a 2-1 ratio. But that demographic did not show up to vote in the 2009 gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia. ABC News exit polling showed people younger than 30 accounted for 9 percent of the voters in New Jersey, down from 17 percent in November 2008, and 10 percent in Virginia, down from 21 percent in 2008.

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Young voters increasingly identify with conservative politics - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review