Our DD was a staunch D. She attends college 4 hrs away, she did vote absentee. I would have bet my life she voted for Obama. Glad I didn't because Bullet would have been sitting Shiva for his Mother and ME too!
She voted MR. She is a jr. in college.
She actually said to me, Mom, you are right; People vote with their wallets. Her older brother commissioned as an AF officer last May, she is a jr. in college, and her younger brother is a freshman in college.
She "got it" after yrs of me saying Abortion really isn't an issue, MR can say he wants to repeal it, but SCOTUS are life appointments, and legal cases have to be heard by them. Abortion was fear mongering.
She "got it" now regarding education---her career field. She just finished applying for internships, and realized it is not the fed. govt., but the state and county that pays. She saw Obama's 100K teachers as a BS line because teachers are paid using state/county/city taxes.
~~~ She intends to go with the Peace Corps or Teach for America upon graduation. Mainly because it will give her an edge. As a parent, Bullet and I have said it is pretty sad we would feel better if she went with the Peace Corps to a 3rd world country than the Teach for America program. During Bullet's Mom's Shiva, everyone our age agreed that Peace Corps was safer. Not from a hiring perspective, but from a safety issue for a 5'0 female issue. That says it all when it comes to our inner cities which is the Teach for program.
She is fortunate, because she is IS and will not have college debt. Her decision is an employment aspect. She belongs to a sororitory, her "twin" was going to go med school, and now as a jr. backing off because she has undergrad debt., and with med school she will have 150K when all is said and done. Obamacare is making her change her career path.
With all of that info, DD voted for MR. She is now in fear of her employment opportunities and so are her friends.
That is my anecdotal stories, curious of what other posters kids and their friends feel about employment come 2014-16 and the amount of debt they are carrying at this young age?
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