They will vote by similar percentages, maybe, but it does not appear that they will vote in as large numbers. They aren’t coming out to vote when Obama isn’t on the ballot. That implies that it’s about him, not about Republicans, and not some long term demographic shift.
The evidence does not support your contention: mid terms turn out is always lower than in Presidential election years and turn-out of youth in 2010 mid terms was on par with other mid terms as the 2008 and 2012 youth turn out was on par with historic norms. The outlier were the two cycles of lower than average youth turn out in Presidential elections in 2000 and 2004. Moreover of those youth voters who came out in 2010 they were much more Democratic leaning than in other cycles.
Huge turn out is a myth; it is just historically normative. But the youth vote is more across the board Democratic than it has been for many decades.
Turns out that young Republicans believe GOP economics caused the recession, the wealthy aren’t paying their fair share, the war on abortion and contraception needs to end, and the defense budget should be cut instead of social spending, and that the GOP’s failure to do these things is costing them their support.
How’s that youthy-votey thing working out for ya, adaher?
A dead one?
And many of those states have hardly any people in them, or are filled with dying old racists. It’s a useless statistic, and I’d say that even if they were mostly governed by Dems.
Young people generally, not young Republicans. The survey sample was registered voters aged 18-29.
Maybe an antivirus scan will fix that situation.
That one crazy actor excepted, Mrs. Lincoln found Our American Cousin to be quite enjoyable.
It’s useless if you’re thinking of national popularity, true, but it’s useful as far as showing that Republicans can indeed govern.
Question 1) Are you a racist?
Question 2) Are you old and dying?
I’d love to see the reactions of people taking that poll…
He did what now? Oh, shit. It’s happening. The apocolypse has started.
The only good libertarian… 
I predict that, even as elections continue to show how wrong your political thought processes are, you’ll continue to crow over some aspect of the results that you think vindicates you.
Very misleading way to phrase the point.
Better would be to write “some competent and sincere politicians have not yet left the Republican Party.”
adaher I am not yet sure you get what the demographic argument is about.
The GOP has functionally written off every other demographic than White Rural (maybe suburban) and White Rich and increasingly male of each as well. In a era when those demographics are shrinking. Now mind you that GOP core is still a big group, but when you lose the youth vote and the urban vote by such huge margins you have to bank on either winning your core by margins nearly as big or on the bet that turn out of other demographics will be poor by any historic measures.
Specific to the youth vote is the additional contention that these youth voters will tend to mostly (not completely) stick with the Democratic Party as they age.
Your point that that such can change is very valid but the party has structural issues at this part that makes it difficut for such to happen. And making those changes first requires them to accept that this is a problem.
Your contention that there is evidence that such is changing, or that the huge Democratic advantage in pretty much every other demographic, from youth votes.
Yes Republicans can govern well and at state levels we see some good examples of that. Unfortunately those who do what it takes to govern well are often punished by the core at a national level for having done see.
I think it actually shows no more than that Republicans can win elections.
Damnit, you broke my understatement meter!