Conventional wisdom says younger voters — particularly college students — are ramping up their support for President Obama’s re-election campaign. But in this NPR piece from WFAE about the president’s visit to North Carolina today, a college student puts the mood of her peers this way:
Three years ago, the campus of historically black Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte was alive with first-time voters wearing Obama campaign buttons.
Students nowadays have other things on their mind.
“A lot of people are saying they’re not voting at all,” says Deborah Garlington, 20, a junior in graphic design. “I guess they’re afraid that Obama didn’t follow what he said he was going to do. That bothers a lot of people because they put their faith in him and I guess they feel let down.”
Garlington says she’ll still vote for Obama, but she doesn’t have time to work on his campaign. She’s too busy worrying about school and whether she’ll be able to find a job when she graduates.
I understand her worry. What I don’t understand is that she’s going to vote for the same failed policies that have killed job creation.
