WP: Young Republicans, Blue About the Prospects Ahead

Jul 24, 09:49 AM CST

It seems the Republican Party has a generation problem. Krissah Williams Thompson of the Washington Post has the story:

David All glanced around Top of the Hill bar and saw the future of the Republican Party. It looked dim. A who’s who of young conservatives had gathered, but they were few, and they were frustrated.

Here were the executive director of the Young Republicans, and the 20-something who helped steer Fred Thompson’s Internet operation, and the young woman who put Mitt Romney’s Web site on the map, and the 24-year-old staffer for Newt Gingrich’s American Solutions for Winning the Future, who had brought them all together to cry in their free Blue Moon beer. The crowd was mostly white and mostly male, dressed in slacks and starched shirts. For most of them, Ronald Reagan and the good times he personified for conservatives were not even vague memories.

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Voters under 30 are more than twice as likely to identify themselves as Democrats, according to the most recent Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The Republican Party is old-fashioned and enamored with its own past. Until that changes – until they come up with a vision for America that doesn’t involve longing for the simpler times of yesteryear – their candidates will continue to suffer at the polls across the country.

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  1. I read the same story in the Washington Post and thought to myself how much more fun it is to attend the social events that Lincoln chapter of Democrats under 40 are!
    — Luke Peterson    Jul 24, 10:21 AM CST #
  2. YR’S IN FLORIDA ARE RACISTS
    — ANGELO    Jul 28, 01:28 PM CST #

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