Off the Publisher’s Desk 5-7-25

It’s time to switch!

It’s time to switch, that is from your snow blower to the lawn mower, and that is what I did Sunday afternoon. Got the lawn mower out of the storage shed and drove the snow blower into storage, just like many of you have done.

I forgot how fast grass grows when we get the first warm day with some rain. Now the grass will be very long before I get to mowing the lawn by mid-week.

Another thing that is switching, is young people’s support of the Democrat Party.

According to a piece published in the Capitol Guardian on April 30th, support among young voters has dropped to the lowest since the spring of 2017 and that young Americans are no longer interested in the party’s America-last approach to the border, taxes, and foreign policy.

Part of the report indicated that: “The bad news just keeps rolling in for the Democratic Party. After a Gallup poll from the first half of April showed public trust in Congressional Democrats was at its lowest point in over two decades another hazardous poll found the party’s rating among young voters has nosedived nineteen percentage points since the spring of 2017.

“The 50th edition of the Harvard Youth Poll from the Kennedy School Institute of Politics was conducted with 2,096 18-to-29-year-olds and found that ratings for Congressional Democrats have dropped by double digits since President Donald Trump’s first term. According to the survey, the approval rating for Congressional Democrats among young Americans sits at just 23 percent today, down nineteen percentage points from where it was during the spring of 2017.

“While young voters aren’t handing out five-star ratings for Congressional Republicans either, approval for Congressional Republicans has remained stable over the past eight years, even ticking up a percentage point from where it was during President Trump’s first term.

“According to the Harvard Youth Poll, 28 percent of young Americans approved of Congressional Republicans in the spring of President Trump’s first term, and that number now sits at 29 percent.

“This does not mean that young people are a slam-dunk for Republicans. Less than a third view the GOP favorable and young people also disagree with Republicans on healthcare and the environment. However, it does indicate that young people are trending toward the right and if Democrats do not begin to prioritize the American people, they will continue losing the youth vote.”

Trump’s term has just begun and I would urge everyone to give him and his team time to get things moving and by 2026 will our country be “great again”?

Thanks for reading!     ~Carlton