Obama’s Popularity With Young Voters  According to a recent USA
Today/Gallup poll, Americans under the age of 30 favor President
Barack Obama over Mitt Romney by almost a two-to-one margin.
This is a startling statistic. What explains the lopsided
support for President Obama among younger Americans?  I think
the two main reasons are ideological and personal.  It’s no
revelation to say that young people tend to be more liberal
about issues like the redistribution of wealth. You may have
heard the old adage, “Anyone who is not a socialist when he is
20, has no heart; anyone who is still a socialist when he is 30,
has no mind.” I lived that adage. I was a young socialist 40
years ago who voted for the likable-but-too-conservative George
McGovern. Then, after emerging from the collegiate cocoon,
weaning myself from financial dependency on others, and seeing
the real-world devastation wrought by socialism, I embraced
capitalism.  The fact of the matter is that our intellect
develops more slowly than our feelings.