Palin Turns Young Republicans On

Amidst allegations of cheating hearts, the only Palin love affair that seems to be real is the one between her and young conservatives. The Republicans are throwing up their canes in joy over the connection the VP seems to have with the much-coveted youth vote.
 

With Palin on the ballot, social conservatives are doing everything they can to woo these young voters, a demographic once surrendered entirely to the Democrats. But Palin makes things different. She makes things “cool.”
 

The Wall Street Journal explains:

Just two weeks ago, the mood on campus "was definitely, 'Obama is the cool place to be,'" said Jennifer Kacerosky, 21, a senior at the University of Florida. This past weekend, though, she went to a football game sporting a McCain-Palin button, and "it was, 'Where'd you get that? I need that!"

Gov. Palin's down-to-earth image and her family travails -- a pregnant teenage daughter, a baby who she says keeps her up at night, a schedule so busy she says it's often macaroni and cheese for dinner -- appeal to young voters who say they had a hard time relating to Sen. McCain. He's been in Congress longer than many college students have been alive; he's a hero from a war they know only from history books; he admits to being clueless about email and texting and Google. Sen. McCain has just 312,000 supporters listed on his Facebook site. Sen. Obama has 1.7 million.

To counteract the out-of-it grandpa-thing McCain’s got going on with the young’uns, the right is pushing Palin, Palin, Palin. The more relatable candidate with a love of mac-n-cheese has a way with the Students for Life contingency on college campuses. According to a 2006 Pew Research Center poll, 46% of people age 18 to 30 believe in banning abortion. As such, pushing the Pro-Life plan is a main part of the conservatives’ youth movement.
 

If only Palin could teach McCain to text and up his Facebook friend count, the Alaskan governor would have the election in the bag. The fact of the matter is nothing gets eager College Republicans’ blood pumping quite like an anti-abortion hottie.