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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Oct 22, 2020, 03:45 PM Oct 2020

New Poll Confirms That High Youth Turnout Would Doom Trump

Republicans have long known that America’s rising generations were going to be a problem for their party. The only questions have been “How big?” and “How soon?”

The bulk of Americans born between 1981 and 1996 saw Bill Clinton preside over an age of (relative) peace and prosperity — and then George W. Bush steer their nation into failed wars and economic collapse. Zoomers, meanwhile, are coming of age amid, well, [gestures broadly at a landscape littered with foreclosed houses, police executions, pandemic breadlines, and melting ice sheets, all watched over by a billionaire Fox News addict who’s focused on his tweets].

Political science research suggests that a voter’s partisan preferences tend to be deeply informed by their evaluations of presidential performance in adolescence and early adulthood. Americans who came of age during the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon presidencies leaned Democratic for years after. Those who attained a sense of self amid Jimmy Carter’s losing battle against stagflation — and/or Ronald Reagan’s boom times — remained disproportionately Republican as they aged.

Thus, millennials and Zoomers were already likely to lean left, even if their generations hadn’t been more diverse, highly educated, and atheistic than their predecessors. But they are. And since all of those traits correlate with ideological liberalism, it’s none too surprising that the kids are all left (or, almost all left, anyway).

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-poll-confirms-that-high-youth-turnout-would-doom-trump/ar-BB1aiFkL?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=hplocalnews

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Raster

(20,996 posts)
3. I believe America's young people WILL TURN OUT in record numbers to vote tRump* out of office...
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 04:48 PM
Oct 2020

...they are the unseen power, the electoral force to be reckoned with. Their time is now.
I believe in America's Youth!
Even though I am in my 60's, I belong to MARCH FOR OUR LIVES. I know the organizing they've been doing.
The "kids from Parkland" said they would change the world.
I believe they will.




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