June 1, 2012 1:58PM # Obama and the Youth Vote By [David Boaz](https://www.cato.org/people/david-boaz) --- SHARE At the *Huffington Post* I have an [article](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-boaz/obama-youth-vote-2012-election_b_1562775.html?ref=elections-2012) on President Obama’s prospects this fall with young voters. I note that: > He’s stumped the country promising to keep interest rates low on student loans, and every voter likes free money. And then perhaps more importantly, he re-established his cool by endorsing gay marriage. Hope and change are back. For many young voters, this reconnected them to the hip young Obama of 2008. But those aren’t the only issues. Citing surveys from Gallup and Harvard, I ask what young voters think about his policies on war, the war on drugs, jobs, and the massive debt he’s leaving them. Today’s dismal unemployment numbers, of course, just reinforce the point that > President Obama’s policies have produced the slowest economic recovery in history. An [analysis](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/22/job-market-college-graduates_n_1443738.html) from the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University found that more than half of young college graduates were unemployed or underemployed last year. [Read it all](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-boaz/obama-youth-vote-2012-election_b_1562775.html?ref=elections-2012). ##### Related Tags [Government and Politics](https://www.cato.org/government-politics) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).