Less than half of 18-to-24-year-old voters want Obama to win reelection. (snip) That single-digit lead represents a dramatic drop from 2008, when Obama won the votes of that age group by a 34-point margin over John McCain -- 66 percent to 32 percent.
It is one thing to imagine all the wonderful things an unknown new guy will do, and quite another to imagine that the very familiar guy we've had four years of will suddenly become wonderful. To paraphrase BHO's 2008 mantra, we're being asked to hope he'll change.
