Tonight in Ohio, President Barack Obama will make another speech to another predominately college-aged audience hoping they are young enough and foolish enough to vote for those who will support his already failed agenda. But according to a recent poll, only 44% of college students approve of the job Mr. Obama is doing; down from 60% in May of 2009.

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Here are five of the reasons why many of the youngest American voters are rejecting what the president is selling:

1. Young voters are not stupid. While they may not have the experience and wisdom of older segments of the electorate, they are certainly bright enough to understand that the soaring rhetoric from Candidate Obama about a new post-partisan, post-racial era has turned into a daily display of incompetence, lack of leadership and an incessant blame game. While many voters of all ages were fooled by the false promises, they will not be so easily fooled now that the reality has been exposed.

2. Young voters care about personal liberty. Being able to make one's own choices in life is a high priority for Americans of all ages but especially the young. The Obama agenda has been exposed as a laundry list of government power grabs aimed at stealing self-determination from individuals and being forced to purchase health insurance as part of Obamacare is just one example. With more restrictive legislation such as Cap & Trade and Card Check to come if liberals retain power, young voters would see even more government intrusion in their day-to-day lives. Inevitably rising taxes to pay for expanding government would further eat away at available choices and should they decide to become small business owners, the level of intrusion will rise exponentially.

3. Young voters care about the poor. The natural evolution from self-absorbed teen to concerned young adult is a wonderful thing. Even more wonderful is the realization that those at the lowest end of the economic spectrum deserve opportunities to rise up from poverty, not more government programs designed to keep them down and dependent on more government programs. A healthy, hiring private sector allows Americans to earn their own wealth rather than just spreading around someone else's until the entire unsustainable system collapses under its own weight.

4. Young voters care about education. Liberal politicians aligned with teachers' unions have spent decades trying to convince the American people that the only way to improve education in America is to throw more taxpayer dollars at the problem. That may profit the politicians and the union leadership; but to better educate students, teachers need to be held to the same merit standards as most other working Americans and parents need to have the freedom to choose the best schools for their children. These ideas that force competition in the education system will produce a better result than just more wasteful government spending.

5. Sometime soon young voters will complete their education and need to get jobs. President Obama promised that passage of his $800+ billion stimulus bill would keep the national unemployment rate below 8%. It has risen to close to 10% and has remained at that level for most of his presidency. Not only did his stimulus fail to stimulate, he has forced obscenely expensive and job-killing legislation onto the American people under the guise of 'reform'. His anti-business agenda, with threats of even more over-regulation, virtually guarantees a depressed job market for years to come if he and his rubber-stamp Congress are allowed to maintain single-party rule.