This doesn’t bode well for the future of the Republican Party:
Former Sen. Rick Santorum was the overwhelming choice of young Republican voters in Alabama and Mississippi with 41% and 45% of the under-30 vote, respectively…
“Santorum performed poorly among young people in the early caucuses and primaries, as he did in his last Pennsylvania Senate race,” said CIRCLE director Peter Levine. ”But he has improved his showing since Michigan, probably on the strength of socially conservative youth.”
The good news is that total youth turnout in the Republican primaries was down from 12 percent and 10 percent in Alabama and MIssissippi in 2008, to 10 percent and 8 percent respectively in 2012. So while southern Republican youth voters appear to be getting even crazier, there are at least fewer of them.