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Talking It depends on the weather.

Young folks who vote-usually not a lot, wiil vote rain or shine for their candidate.
Older folk wont go out in bad weather for anything much.
so It will be a toss up unless the weather is good!
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Young Korean Voters' Ideology Shifts to Right

Interesting ! From the Korea Times.

Young South Korean voters’ ideological inclination is notably shifting from left to right, dimming the prospects for gains by the governing Uri Party in the May 31 local elections, a survey said on Friday.

The survey, conducted by the vernacular Munhwa Ilbo newspaper and the Korea Society Opinion Institute (KSOI), said the gap in support by those in their 20s between the Uri Party and the main opposition Grand National Party (GNP) was decreasing to a considerable extent.

About 29 percent of the respondents in their 20s are in favor of the governing party, while some 24 percent said they support the conservative GNP, the poll said.

The Uri Party received a public approval rating of 32 percent from those aged between 20 and 24, while the opposition party won an approval rating of 25 percent, it said.

In the bracket of voters in their late 20s, the gap was narrower as the ruling party garnered some 26.3 percent of support against the GNP’s 22 percent.

``Traditionally, as you know, a high turnout of voters in their 20s has been unfavorable to the GNP, normally backed by those in the 40s or more,’’ Kim Chun-seok, a researcher of the KSOI, said. ``But things have changed. The shift in young voters’ ideological support is quite remarkable.’’

A case in point is that 27.6 percent and 25 percent of the respondents who said they were ``progressive’’ support the Uri Party and the GNP, respectively, Kim said.

The survey said that Oh Se-hoon, the GNP’s candidate for the Seoul mayoral race, has a 46 percent approval rating, beating out the Uri Party’s Kang Kum-sil’s 34 percent.

Rep. Kim Moon-soo of the GNP, candidate for the Kyonggi governorship, is also leading over the Uri Party’s Chin Dae-je by seven percentage points. Kim received the support of some 29.5 percent of those polled, while Chin won 22.4 percent, it said.
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