youth voters

This was by far the best headline I've read this cycle. One that perfectly captures the ideology, the make up, and the candidates representing the Republican Party.

Seemingly Young-Republican Sean Scallon of the American Chronicle, is one of the major members of the media lately to notice that the GOP is losing major ground.

"I was at the Iowa Straw Poll in Ames this past summer. While out in the vast parking lots of the Hilton Coliseum that morning, holding a Ron Paul sign, I noticed all the campaign workers from the Romney and Tancredo camps riding golf carts to and from their respective tents to the parking lots.

What were these people doing I wondered? They certainly weren’t making the parking attendants happy as they were cutting through traffic.

It wasn’t until the middle of the day that I figured it out. They were transporting their elderly supporters from the parking lots to the Coliseum.

It was the proper thing to do. After all it was 96 degrees that day and very humid. No one would want grandma or grandpa to die of heat exhaustion trying to make their way across all that hot asphalt.

But it laid in stark reality the biggest problem the Republican Party is facing in 2008 and beyond.

It’s not Larry Craig. It’s not Iraq. It’s not corruption. It’s not Katrina, or religious conservatives or even immigration.

It’s age.

The GOP is literally getting older by the minute.

And that means it’s a slowly dying party."

Never mind that this is about the funnies thing I've ever read about the GOP ... but its a good real world example of what we've been seeing in polling for the last several months.