Millennials and the vote. Don't count on them.

[Cattledog]

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[LBM20]

1. They need to get off their asses and VOTE.

[Doreen]

2. Maybe

This is a clue of the dumbing down of people in the U.S. They were taught somewhere that voting does not matter.

[JI7]

3. no, young people of all generations have voted in very low numbers

it's nothing new. it would take something like a military draft or a law making voting mandatory to get a real change.

[Midnight Writer]

4. In the Sixties, I couldn't wait to turn 21 and vote. But none of my friends cared at all.

And this was when we were all in danger of a taxpayer funded trip to Vietnam.

[Funtatlaguy]

5. It's up to all of us to influence young people in our families to vote.

[beachbum bob]

6. Unless we get ourselves involved in the process, how do we expect the younger voters to?

[bearsfootball516]

7. The youngest voting block has NEVER voted regularly.

It's not a current generation thing, it's always been this way.

Most of it is because they're fairly detached from the real world at that time. They don't pay bills, they don't go grocery shopping, they don't have their own health insurance, they don't have to pay premiums, etc. It's not until they're in their 20s and start taking on more responsibility that they realize how much everything impacts them. I was the same way.

[cwydro]

8. This is very depressing.

I’ve voted in every single election from the first year I could.

[AlexSFCA]

9. I have not yet met a millenial interested in voting

in fact the next generation is more involved. I have millenials in the family also - the most apolitical bunch I know.

[Trust Buster]

10. I watch their total preoccupation with cell phone screens and feel like they are so detached

From reality sometimes.

[secondwind]

11. My 19 yr old granddaughter is very excited to vote for the very first time.