Colbert: GOP Would Win Presidency If Not For Those ‘Meddling Kids’

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Who says having a “radical” Medicare proposal is such a bad thing?

According to Stephen Colbert, that just might be the kind of message Republicans need to send if they want to court the youth vote, a task already daunting because of how popular President Obama is with young adults.

“The only way kids could love Obama more is if he was a skate park,” Colbert said.

It was Obama’s high popularity with younger voters that helped tip the election away from McCain in 2008. Or, as Colbert put it, “Old man McCain would be president if it weren’t for you meddling kids!”

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