I typical share via Google Reader these days but I thought, this post from Greg Mankiw deserves extra attention basically because I agree with it. He theorizes that the youth moved away from the Republican Party because of social conservatism. I expressed the same concerned earlier.<\/p>\n
…It was largely noneconomic issues. These particular students told me they preferred the lower tax, more limited government, freer trade views of McCain, but they were voting for Obama on the basis of foreign policy and especially social issues like abortion. The choice of a social conservative like Palin as veep really turned them off McCain.<\/p>\n
So what does the Republican Party need to do to get the youth vote back? If the Harvard students are typical (and perhaps they are not, as Harvard students are hardly a random sample), the party needs to scale back its social conservatism. Put simply, it needs to become a party for moderate and mainstream libertarians. The actual Libertarian Party is far too extreme in its views to attract these students. And it is too much of a strange fringe group. These students are, after all, part of the establishment. But a reformed Republican Party could, I think, win them back. [The Youth Vote and the GOP<\/a><\/em>. Greg Mankiw’s Blog. November 5 2008]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Will it happen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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