Young voters outvoted Boomers in 2018

[lilpixieofterror]

Hillary won the popular vote by 3 million, Trump won the electoral college by barely winning 3 states by colluding with our adversay, Russia. Those states in particular were targeted, by information supplied by P Manafort, Trumps campaign manager, with misinformation by Russia. After seemingly getting away with collusion, thanks to his corrupt Atty Gen., he went about trying the same scheme by extorting Ukraine into smearing his political rival in the upcoming election. Are you blind, or is cognitive dissonance the problem?

It doesn't take a political savant to see the path for Trump to a second term: the economy, the economy, the economy. The history of modern presidential elections suggests that the economy is always at the center of how voters make up their minds -- and that when people feel as though things are going well (in their personal economics and in the country) they tend to want to stay the course.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/polit...020/index.html

[JimL]

It doesn't take a political savant to see the path for Trump to a second term: the economy, the economy, the economy. The history of modern presidential elections suggests that the economy is always at the center of how voters make up their minds -- and that when people feel as though things are going well (in their personal economics and in the country) they tend to want to stay the course.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/polit...020/index.html

You're right, it's usually the economy, but for one thing the economy isn't doing as well as you think for the ordinary american, and for another, we haven't had a treasonous wannabe dictator as President before. We have one now and a majority want him impeached and removed from office. Some people care more about their democracy than they are concerned about the temporary fluctuations in the economy, particularly when the flucuations aren't effecting them.

[lilpixieofterror]

You're right, it's usually the economy, but for one thing the economy isn't doing as well as you think for the ordinary american, and for another, we haven't had a treasonous wannabe dictator as President before. We have one now and a majority want him impeached and removed from office. Some people care more about their democracy than they are concerned about the temporary fluctuations in the economy, particularly when the flucuations aren't effecting them.

[JimL]

Yes, I seem to remember you saying the same in 2018.

[lilpixieofterror]

Yes, I seem to remember you saying the same in 2018.

[JimL]

The vote differential in the 2018 midterms was 9 million in favor of the Democrats and the 8.1% spread between them and the republicans was a larger spread than even the 7.2% differential in the 2010 republican wave. That's what happens when democrats are motivated, and they certainly will be in November.

[lilpixieofterror]

The vote differential in the 2018 midterms was 9 million in favor of the Democrats and the 8.1% spread between them and the republicans was a larger spread than even the 7.2% differential in the 2010 republican wave. That's what happens when democrats are motivated, and they certainly will be in November.

[Sparko]

I did legit search for articles on Gen Z being conservative and could not find any. In any case based on reading the articles you posted I will agree that Gen Z does have some conservative values. I remain unconvinced that they agree with what most of this board mean when they use that word (i.e. Republican values).

A total of 50.3 percent of eligible voters voted in 2018, compared to a turnout of just 36.7 of eligible voters in 2014. The 2018 elections had highest turnout of any mid-term election held since the 1914 elections.

Obviously I'm not assuming that. Are you going to challenge the idea that Boomers are particularly likely to vote Republican?

Just look at all of the boomer Democrats in government, DB. No generation is a homogeneous political group. Yet you were assuming that based on your comments on your chart. You were thinking the young people voting represented democrats and the boomers represented Republicans. Thus your comments about "the blue wave"

But I would agree that a majority of boomers are conservative and a majority of those under 35 are liberal.




Not sure when you were born but I might have some bad news for you

Pew Research Center defines baby boomers as being born between 1946 and 1964.

Different places have different numbers.

Even if we go with your number you're probably at the upper end of the Gen X spectrum so that only proves so much. My parents are both boomers and they vote Democrat every election. So I guess I win :).

you just disproved your own belief about boomers being conservative.

PS JimL is an old fart and he is as liberal as they come.

[JimL]

Just look at all of the boomer Democrats in government, DB. No generation is a homogeneous political group. Yet you were assuming that based on your comments on your chart. You were thinking the young people voting represented democrats and the boomers represented Republicans. Thus your comments about "the blue wave"

But I would agree that a majority of boomers are conservative and a majority of those under 35 are liberal.




Not sure when you were born but I might have some bad news for you

Pew Research Center defines baby boomers as being born between 1946 and 1964.

Different places have different numbers.

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you just disproved your own belief about boomers being conservative.

PS JimL is an old fart and he is as liberal as they come.

I'm a very young old fart, and as for "being as liberal as they come" depends upon how that's defined.

[Sparko]

I'm a very young old fart, and as for "being as liberal as they come" depends upon how that's defined.

"in the USA" I should have said. Because, well, Starlight.