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Primary election stats suggest GOP youth-voter catastrophe will continue

By | 03.12.12 | 5:06 am

Low turnout among youth voters for the Republican Super Tuesday primary contests suggests the GOP is making a major strategy misstep this year, analysts told the Colorado Independent. They said that Republican campaign messages to young people are mostly absent, weak or a turn-off and they called youth outreach efforts uninspired. They said the party looks to be continuing a disastrous trend sure to be exploited in the general election by President Obama, the man whose candidacy drew out young people as voters and volunteers in record numbers in 2008.

U.S. GDP rises again, good news for incumbent Democrats

By | 04.30.10 | 8:56 am

The government Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Friday that U.S. GDP grew at a 3.2 percent per-year pace in the first quarter. It’s the third-straight quarter of strong growth, weaker than the 5.6 percent pace set in the fourth…

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