No kidding.

Almost three years after the passage of ObamaCare, BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith reports that ObamaCare is actually a wealth-redistribution system in the most regressive manner possible.  Young workers, who find it increasingly more difficult to find jobs, will end up subsidizing the health care of older workers, who are hanging onto jobs longer and longer.  The [...]

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You're just being modest.

There are any number of conclusions to be drawn from the outcome of Tuesday’s election (and how!), but among the biggest discussion points of the last two days has been about the indisputable superiority of the Democratic ground game and campaign machinery. Says Peter Hamby at CNN: Democrats showed decisively that their ground game — [...]

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Comfortably numb.

I must admit, I thought that disenchantment with the shoddy results of President Obama’s first term, combined with the diminished spirit of Hopenchange, would mean we’d see some significant shift from the record-breaking decisiveness of the youth vote that was the 2008 election. I would’ve thought that living on their parents’ couches might’ve compelled them [...]

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Uh oh.

One of the key Hopenchange-influenced demographics that boosted Barack Obama’s path to victory in 2008 was, of course, the starry-eyed youth vote, and part of Team Obama’s strategy still relies upon urging the youth vote to vote again/vote early/get their undecided friends to vote, especially in swing states, is still very much a part of [...]

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Small things, small candidates.

In 2008, young voters flocked to the polls to vote for Barack Obama in their third-best turnout since 1972, the first year that 18-year-olds could vote.  In 2012, four years wiser, many of them won’t be back, according to a new survey from Harvard Institute of Politics.  Enthusiasm has fallen by double digits in the [...]

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"That thing's just like The Ring - three days after you watch it, embassies just burst into flames."

Via Breitbart, this could be a potentially important moment in the Benghazi cover-up collapse for the Obama administration.  Jon Stewart doesn’t break any news on the story, like Eli Lake at the Daily Beast has done, or necessarily put together a previously unknown sequence of events to create a new angle on it.  Stewart puts [...]

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Stuff.

I feel like we saw a new celebrity “voting (for Obama) is cool!” vid appear every other day during campaign ’08. This year, not so much. What happened? Is Hollywood sincerely disappointed in the politics of Hopenchange, or is this a simple case of there being less hipness-by-association to be mined from his fading brand? [...]

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It's come to this.

Just what we’ve all been waiting for — now I can send intellectually cheap, platitudinous, pre-packaged falsehoods from Obama’s messaging team to my friends and family, in a simple e-card! Life = made. I have to hand it to them: Their graphics people are kinda’ excellent. But, the messaging? Not so much, my friends. Fresh [...]

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Supposedly.

Heh. Speaking today at a campaign rally at the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire:   Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com I was asked, I’m supposedly an expert on foreign policy. Well, you know, an expert from where I come from is anyone from out of town with a briefcase. I do not have [...]

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Wake-up call.

In 2008, the youth vote was practically gift-wrapped for President Obama, with larger-than-average numbers of starry-eyed, enthusiastic, inspired under-30s showing up at the polls to vote overwhelmingly in his favor. Obama barely even had to do any real work to convince them that he was their guy — the pervasive sentiments of Hopenchange and his [...]

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Finding out what's in it.

Barack Obama and his campaign hoped to make ObamaCare their pitch to get younger voters more enthused about the election this year — a perverse but not forlorn hope, as I’ll explain in a minute.  That may be even more true in North Carolina, where Democrats are holding their convention this week, and where Obama [...]

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Hopeless.

From Crossroads Generation, a new spot recalling the most memorable line from Ryan’s speech last night. Much like the Democrats’ Mediscare tactics, this ad is designed less to get a core constituency from the other side to cross over, I think, than it is to convince them to stay home on election day. Because let’s [...]

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A big gamble -- that's paying off.

So says Kirsten Powers in the Daily Beast.  Forget Republicans and Democrats, the center-left commentator writes — this election is about Baby Boomers vs everyone else in America.  Mitt Romney has chosen the first major-ticket representative of what Powers calls The Screwed Generation, and Ryan may be their last hope to keep from falling into [...]

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Somewhat less enthused.

Yesterday, I wondered whether the almost 17 percent youth unemployment rate would do anything to check the type of overwhelming support President Obama received from young people in 2008. Apparently, there’s ‘hope’ for us young people yet — Obama received a whopping 66 percent of the youth vote the first time around, and while he [...]

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The youths.

I’m really hoping that the almost 17 percent unemployment rate among those aged 18 through 29 is going to do something to quell the blind and unbridled enthusiasm we witnessed from the youth vote last time around, maybe to help bolster their immunity to hopey-changey rigmarole like this. Chyeah, brah! I can totally see why [...]

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The youths.

With the song being run ragged over the radio waves, parodies abound — but I’m posting this one because I actually think it pretty accurately portrays the mood of disappointment and disenchantment young people are feeling with President Obama these days. Not to mention, the classic Hopenchange background is a clever take on Gotye’s original [...]

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Only on the backs of private lenders.

Haven’t we seen this one coming for a while?  Back in November at the height of the Occupy movement, when activists demanded a bailout on student loans, Reason TV offered this helpful reminder of all the reasons a bailout would do more damage than it would undo: Nevertheless, the newly-formed Consumer Financial Protection Board has [...]

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Middle-aged and senior enthusiasm up.

In 2008, Barack Obama rode a wave of youth-vote enthusiasm for “Hope and Change” to a seven-point win in the national popular vote.  A new poll from Gallup shows that the hope has pretty much dissipated — and Obama might not like the change that has resulted:  Fifty-eight percent of U.S. registered voters aged 18 [...]

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Irony.

Almost fifty years ago, teenagers and young adults proclaimed, “Don’t trust anyone over 30!”  These days, though, the same generation seems intent on impoverishing everyone under 30 now, as Nick Gillespie argues at Reason.  From ObamaCare to efforts at reimposing a draft for military or national service to the refusal to address the obvious entitlement [...]

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Discouraged.

As a member of the recently-graduated demographic crowd, I can attest that I’ve got a fair number of friends — well-educated, hardworking friends — who are currently living at home with their parents. (Not that I think having a college degree entitles you to a job, and certainly no more or less than anyone else, [...]

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Rough.

Is no age group safe from the fiscal woes of economic near-recession and pending entitlement crises? (Hint: No.) While we often focus on the troubles of young people unable to find employment and just chillin’ on the parents’ couches, and we’re already well aware of the upcoming squeeze on Social Security as baby boomers begin [...]

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"This is not 'President of the United States' kind of stuff."

The Obama campaign has been making much ado about a few of their celebrity connections of late, getting Anna Wintour and Sarah Jessica Parker in on the act with ads unveiled during the weekend’s MTV movie awards to raise some dolla’ dolla’ bills for his reelection campaign. Mr. Limbaugh, to put it gently, is somewhat [...]

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The dangers of youth culture.

I love a curmudgeonly rant, and so this interview of National Review’s Jonah Goldberg is right up my alley. This excerpt of a longer interview with the Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas focuses on Jonah’s issues with the “youth culture,” the obsession with the worldview of the least experienced of our citizenry. Goldberg notes that “we’re [...]

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Turnout.

There has been a wavelet of stories from outlets like The Atlantic, The Hill and Yahoo! suggesting Pres. Obama could be in trouble with the youth vote. The Atlantic’s Molly Ball notes: Less than half of 18-to-24-year-old voters want Obama to win reelection, and he leads a generic Republican candidate by just 7 percentage points, [...]

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On the beach, natch.

Here at Hot Air, we want to bring you only the tough, breaking news.  Where better to find breaking news than … spring break on the beach?  Fox’s Jesse Watters goes on assignment for The O’Reilly Factor and digs into the mindset of the youth vote on energy policy, economics, and, er … beer: Watch [...]

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