Obama's Grip on the Youth Slipping?

In Michelle Malkin's commentary: Young Voters Slowly Abandoming Hope & Change; she addresses the decline of support from young voters (specifically ranging from ages 18-34) for Obama's campaign. She proclaims that those who in November of 2008 were screaming "Yes We Can" and other similar Obama slogans are now a little less fanatical about the matter. She suggests that a large contributer to the loss of support from this group is the fact that this age group is now realizing that all this "free" healthcare, bills, and support laws are all coming out of their pockets.

Her insert from Molly Andolina also attempts to unveil the condescending nature of her statement, Molly refers to the young voting group as easily disillusioned However Malkin states that this is simply the politically correct way of calling us young voters "suckers".

While she does make this claim she warns that the decline in "Obama-ites" does not mean that a sudden surge of GOP support will result. Rather she challenges that if the GOP wants to pick up this slack of Obama's they should present a worthy opponent to face him off in this coming election. The intended audience seems to be Americans in general, however her statement about the GOP opponent does offer a challenge to the conservatives.

To back up her claims that Obama is indeed at a loss of support, she has a link to one of The President's own videos. In this video (included below) President Obama attempts to justify why change is taking so long; and while he does have a point that big changes take time, there does seems to be a hint of reassurance, and desperation in the message. Mid-video a MSNBC reporter interrupts with a list of all the "wonderful change" that HAS occurred this year and cleverly points out that "The last time any president did this much in office; booze was illegal."

Mrs. Malkin may be a conservative blogger, but she does offer good advice to both parties; To the GOP: time to step up and find a challenger that will really stand out to this age group, and to the Democrats: Give them some changes that they can see.