Youth Wasted on the Young?

The Democrats are very worried about their chances this November, and with good reason. There's a significant part of the voting public simply fed up with the power surge in Washington, while President Barack Obama's ratings are, to say the least, stagnant. Still, discontent and poll numbers may be fleeting, and by themselves mean little this far ahead of game day. But that is not all which trouble our liberal friends.

The 2010 elections are midterm. Historically, midterm elections bode ill for the folks in power. That in itself forecasts something of a downer for the Dems. When you throw in the fact the people the President and his allies count on for support, the young and minority voters, have a strong tendency to ignore the middle elections, there is greater reason to fear the results. When those groups come out, it is often only for the big time.

To counter this, the Democrats are attempting to woo those groups into turning out en masse as they did in 2008 for Mr. Obama. But can the ploy succeed?

With unemployment still high and the spark from the President's electoral triumph gone, who knows? When you depend on a shallow electorate in the first place, the inspiration to vote will naturally be fleeting. Yet it may be the only card which the Democrats can play.

Older and conservative voters are the ones who tend to show up for the off elections. This, coupled with the other points herein, are what concern the Obama-Pelosi-Reid gang the most. It is all of these factors which spell disaster for them later this year.

Winston Churchill famously said, "If you are not liberal when you are 20, you have no heart. If you are not conservative when you are 50, you have no head." However true or not that may be, it is a saying which will be tested in November 2010. It is not an exam the Democratic National Committee feels it can pass.