Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and the Yahoo Answers website is now in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

?
Lv 6
? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 7 years ago

What can the Republican Party do to gain more youth votes?

Beefing up libertarians with tea party helps get generation X votes but Generation Y is starting to realize richest people use more resources and should be taxed at bigger rate and dollar amount number means less then tax rate. The other wedge issue is guns and abortions but that is wearing off. I love guns and hate abortions but I don't vote republican.

7 Answers

Relevance
  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    If Republicans want to start winning elections for a change, they better concentrate on getting out their real message and promoting the core values that they most fervently believe in. Here is a ten-point platform that will guarantee Republican success in the years ahead:

    Establish concentration camps for all homosexuals.

    Establish mandatory prison terms for all women caught using any form of birth control.

    Creationism Science must be taught to every elementary school child in America.

    A big rock with the Ten Commandments carved in it must be placed in every courtroom.

    Abolish all taxes for America's Top One Percent richest job-creators and entrepreneurs.

    Revive America's sluggish nuclear weapons industry.

    Make Secretary of National Christian Religion a new cabinet post.

    Abolish the Environmental Protection Agency.

    Abolish the National Endowment for the Arts.

    Require every American to own a loaded gun and 500 rounds of ammo.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    I think if the GOP could do away with the RACISM that would help!

    Also if the GOP could not be such DENSE RETARDED BACKWOODS F*U*C*KS I think that would help.

    And it would help if the GOP actually DID things & could be open to prosperity and not just profit from war.

    It might also help if they weren't so totally FULL OF S*H*I*T!

    Also probably a good idea if they could let go of being Pro-Rape.

    Those are a few ideas for now --

    Attachment image
  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Stop responding to the obvious traps the Liberals are setting and then watching while the GOP keeps sticking their foot in their posterior, an example would be Minimum wage where as soon as Liberals threw it out there the GOP started whining about it and ALL people on Minimum wage said BYE BYE.

  • Jas B
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    With non-white voters making up 42% of voters under the age of 30, the issue of party diversity and the party’s success with the youth vote are absolutely inseparable.

    Republicans need to change their ideas and comments about minority groups, stop classifying them as criminals, stupid, lazy etc. What young person from a minority group is going to vote for a party who make such statements about their families.

    Young people are unlikely to view homosexuality as morally wrong and believe that gays should be allowed to marry. What young homosexual is going to vote for a party who want to discriminate against them and deny them equal rights because of their sexual orientation.

    We see Republicans trying to convince the young that climate change is not happening, against the evidence of over 99% of the world's scientists, and that that evolution is false, again against just about all of the world's scientists. We teach our young to learn to think for themselves and evaluate evidence and what they see in Republicans is a party who deny science.

    What young woman is going to vote for a party who want to take away her right to determine if, when and how many children she will have. To vote for a party who want to take away her human rights and force her to have a baby she feels unable financially and/or emotionally raise. A party who will then demonise her for being a single parent and for needing to get help from the state in order to put food in her children's mouths and a roof over their head.

    What young woman is going to vote for a party who tell her she will not get pregnant if she is "truly" raped and if she does she should look on such an event as a "gift from God"

    Young people are optimistic and want to do things, become more inclusive, Republicans would need to focus more on a positive message and move away from being 'The Party of No'

    Can they change their attitudes on these matters, I doubt it, the party is in the majority made up of elite white men, who consider their ideals, opinions and prejudices are beyond criticism, let alone that they could be wrong.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Use your Common Sense.

  • 7 years ago

    Republicans keep claiming that they're trying to attract more Black, Hispanic, and young women's votes. I guess they should start trying to disenfranchise the young voters. That's how they try to attract blacks and Hispanics.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Democrats have driven out business because of their tax policies and excessive regulations and increasing bureaucracy. Many cities are reducing their red tape for that reason so they can attract business. Texas is getting pretty successful at drawing businesses away from California unfortunately for me because i live in California.

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.