The Glum and the Restless Nearly one in five recent grads is out of work. Could that hurt Obama’s reelection bid?

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The Glum and the Restless

Nearly one in five recent grads is out of work. Could that hurt Obama’s reelection bid?

Conway’s polling suggests that young voters could sympathize with a Republican message on cutting federal spending and the budget deficit. Three-quarters of millennials want to see federal spending reduced, she says, and three in five want to reduce the deficit through spending cuts rather than tax increases. Two-thirds say that Social Security dollars are safer “under your pillow” than with the government. Paul Conway, the group’s president, says that’s “fair warning” to Obama about how young voters view his policies.