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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I am happy that the party is not taking a condescending approach to the 18-35 year-old demographic. If the party says - this is who we are, and this is why you should join our cause - that is good enough for me. If others think you have to - sort of hide your message in what people think is popular to 18 year-olds, I think they underestimate the electorate and young voters. But that is me, I have never been a populist nor do I think like one.
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ace...I would suggest that it is not condescending to look forward and focus on new ideas and fresh faces rather than an old Cold War icon that may of that age (18-35) have little or no connection to.
Its not hiding your message...its making it relevant to a new generation of voters.
A friend of mine from our MPM days at GW Univ....a conservative republican who is a party activist ...is pulling her hair out these days in trying to get the party to look beyond Reagan and be more forward thinking in their outreach.
It sounds to me, if you are representative of the base, that such an approach has little appeal.
Maybe I can finally pull her away from the darkside..if for no other reason than out of frustration with the base's myopia!