Obama continues to lose support within 18-29 age group. Is the Anti-Obama trend among young voters a good sign for America?

President Barack Obama’s year-long bid to court the youth vote appears to be falling short, and he could lose one or more swing states in November as a result, an analysis of several recent polls indicates.

JZ Analytics pollster John Zogby recently described Obama’s poll numbers among 18 to 29 year-olds as “anemic.” In Zogby’s poll, only 53 percent of voters age 18 to 29 said they would vote for Obama. That’s a big drop from 2008, when Obama won fully two-thirds of that demographic.

Obama’s weak numbers come despite a parade of visits to college campuses to tout the administration’s student-loan policies. Several recent surveys show that Obama’s margin with young voters may have shrunk into single digits.

Last week’s New York Times/CBS News poll, for example, showed Obama leading Romney just 53 to 45 among young voters.

Polls across the political spectrum are surprisingly consistent regarding Obama’s vulnerability. A Daily Kos/SEIU poll conducted Sept. 7-9 showed Obama with a 54 percent to 41 percent lead. Fifty-four percent of the young people surveyed in that poll said the nation is on the wrong track.

Those polls suggest that Obama’s problems with young voters are deeper than turn-out and enthusiasm, as generally reported in the media.
A record 43 straight months of 8 percent-plus unemployment have left many young people wondering whether conservative economic policies would work better, some analysts say.
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