CPAC is all "college students and retirees." Funny, but is it really?

[Atman]

Okay, so common wisdom is that college students don't actually vote, while retirees do.

This relates to the just-ended commentary on UP with Kornacki. His panelist suggested CPAC is basically meaningless, because it is really only the fringe...college students and retirees, so what they say or straw vote on doesn't actually matter. These are outliers, fringe elements. But when you throw in the media bias towards the right wing nutters, are they really outliers?

[femmocrat]

1. I was surprised that it skewed younger, too.

Maybe they are the ones who have the means to travel and stay at a hotel? Dunno.

My guess is that the people who are raising families and/or working weekends decided to focus on more important things.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. I guess not every millennial is a budding liberal

I'm not surprised, considering that most of the frat rats I knew skewed conservative - children of privilege who grew up in households where poverty and disability were seen as character flaws.

[femmocrat]

3. Yes, I know the type.

Insensitive to the "masses". LOL

[JHB]

4. The college students aren't a random sample, they're the ones being groomed...

...for carrying the torch of the conservative cause, such as it is.

College Republicans, Young Americans For Freedom, and an assortment of similar groups.

Plus the paulite fan club likes to show up at attention-getting events to try to "mainstream" (for Republicans) Ron and Rand.

[MineralMan]

5. CPAC is heavy in libertarians.

I suspect that most of the "college students" are in that category.

[LuvNewcastle]

7. I think you're right.

Younger people who identify as Republican tend to skew towards being libertarian. Southern GOPers of all ages tend to be more libertarian as well.

[dsc]

8. No southern GOPers aren't

You can say lots of things about people who would use government to ban marriage equality, ban abortion, ban sodomy, and ban marijuana (all of which southern GOPers support) but libertarian isn't one of them.

[LuvNewcastle]

9. Southern Republicans contradict themselves all the time.

If you're looking for consistency, you won't find it with them. Most of them think they're Christians, too. RW libertarians in the U.S. have more in common with fascists than anything else, which is why I think there is some confusion here. The word "libertarian" doesn't mean the same thing in America that it does in the rest of the world. I agree with what you're saying, but the word means something totally different when applied to American RWers.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

6. There's no doubt its the fringe!

This begs the question-Why all the coverage? Other than the fact that some of the speakers were elected idiots-the rest were just idiots. CPAC is a freak show. Other than keeping up on what the inmates are saying at the asylum these days, why give it all of this attention?

The speaker line up makes me think of this- Dr. Martini, Dr. Cheswick, Dr. Harding, Dr. Tabor, Dr. Trump, Dr. Palin, Dr. Cruz-the famous Dr. Cruz....

[cheyanne]

10. Coverage of CPAC is vital for us.

We want to encourage the repugs to continue to spend their time and money on preserving the bubble.

This wastes their time and money more than it garners votes.

The tparty is an extreme group that is on the ropes. . .