Not that the Republican party has much traction with young voters to begin with, but it's safe to say attitudes like this aren't going to help much:
A county treasurer who lost her bid for a fourth term last week to a 20-year-old Dartmouth College student from Montana blames her failed candidacy on "brainwashed college kids."
Republican Carol Elliott said students just voted for the Democratic ticket, which included Dartmouth junior Vanessa Sievers. Sievers won by nearly 600 votes out of 42,000 cast after targeting voters at Dartmouth and Plymouth State University through a $42 ad on the Web site Facebook.
"It was the brainwashed college kids that made the difference," Elliott, 66, told the Valley News of Lebanon. She said she had little faith that Sievers will fulfill her duties adequately.
"You've got a teenybopper for a treasurer," said Elliott, who has held the position for six years. "I'm concerned for the citizens of Grafton County."
If you pay attention to conservatives for any length of time, you'll hear a fundamental disrespect of the judgment of the electorate they serve. You know what I'm talking about, calls for tests for potential voters, stricter registration procedures, etc & co. That's why voter fraud gets traction on the right: it taps into a dislike of what they perceive to be non-normative peoples. In short,like people not on Saxby Chambliss' "side."
Only problem is that there's a lot of us "non-normative" people out there. And we like to be included in the goings on of our society. And who knows? Maybe some of us just simply will be better at the job.
Sievers, by the way, is from Big Sky, Montana. |
