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2:48 PM, May 10, 2012 • By GEOFFREY NORMAN

We are the ones ... who are waiting tables and living in our parents' basements. According to Gallup:

Thirty-two percent of 18- to 29-year-olds in the U.S. workforce were underemployed in April, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment. This is up from 30.1% in March and is slightly higher than the 30.7% of a year ago.

The youth vote went massively for President Obama in 2008. Validating, yet again, Menckin's famous and trenchant insight:

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

6:45 PM, May 7, 2012 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

Which group of voters’ support for (or opposition to) Mitt Romney will hinge the most on his vice presidential choice? According to a newly released Politico-George Washington University poll, the answer is: Republicans under the age of 45.

8:44 AM, Sep 6, 2011 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL

An upbeat beginning to the school year in today's Washington Post: The new ABC/Post poll has Obama's overall approval at 43 percent, with 53 percent disapproving. If these numbers hold, it's very unlikely Obama will be reelected.

8:01 AM, Aug 11, 2011 • By ROBIN SIMCOX

London—Trying to return to Hackney, five minutes from the heart of the protests, from vacation on the night the rioting was at its fiercest provided an insight into the carnage engulfing London. The city had been transformed into a kind of Alan Moore dystopia. Sirens were deafening, with bright lights blinding. Train operators announced gravely that there had been “civil unrest” across London, and that some areas of the city were no longer safe.

Obama tries to fool them again.

Oct 11, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 04 • By YUVAL LEVIN

Surprisingly, women and youth support Brown over Coakley.

3:24 PM, Jan 19, 2010 • By RACHEL HOFF

A Politico/InsiderAdvantage poll released yesterday showed remarkably high support for Scott Brown, especially among two groups that many would assume to be sure bets for Martha Coakley: women and youth.

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