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Originally Posted by kane
Just curious were you get the numbers about Romney winning 19 and 20 year olds. Everything I read shows Obama having won 60% of the youth vote and Romney only getting 37%. Of course that is just a block of voters 18-29 and not just 18 and 19 year old. Plus, the chart you have there shows those who turned 18 during Obama's presidency voted pro-democrat.
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from the article. The point is 18-20 year olds, not 18-29, thus the preface- "If we zero in on the youngest..."
The point is dems have an identity issue as well, specifically among the youngest.
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The reason is this: The dominant party identification of any new generation depends on the political and economic fundamentals in the country when that generation enters young adulthood. A booming economy and a popular president will push young people toward the president’s party. A recession and an unpopular president will push young people toward the opposite party.
The graph from earlier research by the Pew Research Center (which I’ve noted before) shows how differently generations have voted depending who was president when they came of age.
This shows the risks in predicting that, politically speaking, the young people of tomorrow will be like the young people of today. Someone looking at young people during the Reagan-Bush years, for example, might have assumed that the Republicans’ future was bright.
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