by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math
Via Mother Jones, the news (NYT) that young people are more supportive of the war in Iraq isn’t that suprising, as the article mentions, young people always had a more favorable view of the war in Vietnam. No one has a good explanation why this is; “the draft” clearly wasn’t a driving issue for youth, though it may have been for their parents.
What’s more curious is that the polling shows under-30 voters to have higher approval of Bush, which goes against all the recent polling that has Gen-Y as the most Democratic-identifying generation since the New Deal. Perhaps the article meant to say “Overall, 34 percent of Americans said they approved of the way the president was handling his job [on Iraq]”?
