Uh, Mr. President? It's About Those Young, Environmentally Aware Voters & Activists . . . .

[hatrack]

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The president continues to enjoy high approval ratings from Americans ages 18 to 29, according to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll. Several workers at Power Shift’s command center in downtown Washington said they will probably vote for him. But their vote isn’t really the issue. It’s their desire to take time off from their jobs, knock on doors, drive enthusiasm on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, and work young people into a get-out-the-vote frenzy for Obama.

“He has my vote, but only by default, by virtue of the clowns on the other side,” said Derrick Evans, 44, of Gulfport, Miss., referring to Republicans who favor oil drilling and oppose Environmental Protection Agency regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. “If I were , I wouldn’t want that to be the glue that adheres me.”

As he monitored the Twitter traffic of people who said they were on their way to the conference, Jeff Mann, 25, of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., said the frustration with the president’s energy policy was evident. “There are hundreds of tweets asking Obama not to go with big polluters,” said Mann, the online director for the Energy Action Coalition, 50 youth-led environmental and social justice organizations that created Power Shift. “More than a few people are going to support Obama, but they’re not excited about it. I haven’t seen anyone on my list who wanted to go out after Power Shift and join the Obama 2012 campaign.”

Jenna Garland of Woodstock, Ga., who’s recruiting youth to the conference, said her support for Obama hinges on whether he continues to embrace oil, coal and natural gas, which is extracted using chemicals that environmentalists say endanger fresh water sources. “That is the thing that will determine whether I will take the time off and do the door knocks,” said Garland, 26. “I may have a real hard time getting motivated to do that for him.”

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/youth-at-environment-summit-unhappy-with-obama-energy-policies/2011/04/14/AFnj9weD_story.html

[abqmufc]

1. Victory by default, sort of sums it up for me...

"He has my vote, but only by default, by virtue of the clowns on the other side,"......yeah that sums up my view as well. I'd only add he has validated the belief that it doesn't even matter who wins, we (the people) lose.

[flamingdem]

3. You do know the republicans have/would destroy the EPA and clean air acts?

What you're saying reveals you are out of touch with the entire debate in congress.

[msongs]

2. Obama and congress are out of touch and behind what so many Americans want nt

[jillan]

4. Well the GOP is out to destroy the environment - this will make you sick

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/science/earth/16enviro.html?_r=1&hp
(The GOP out to deregulate the environment)



While it absolutely sickens me that Obama is allowing deep sea drilling in the Gulf again and is still for nuclear energy, I'm afraid that the next election is very much about voting for the lesser of two evils. (in more ways than one). If the gopers get in control, goodbye National Parks and
nature preserves - Hello new corporations built right on those very locations.