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Here it is. Young Democratic Voters are Going to Guide The Coarse of History. 💪
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Victor Shi @Victorshi2020
The media & pundits want you to believe young voters aren’t showing up. That couldn’t be further from the truth. What we’re seeing across the country is that it’s young Democrats, NOT young Republicans, who are surpassing 2018 turnout rates. Data in next Tweet:
10:47 AM · Oct 31, 2022 ·Twitter for iPhone 1,953 Retweets 58 Quote Tweets 8,372 Likes
2 Pictures of Chart with Data.
The media & pundits want you to believe young voters aren’t showing up. That couldn’t be further from the truth. What we’re seeing across the country is that it’s young Democrats, NOT young Republicans, who are surpassing 2018 turnout rates. Data in next Tweet:
10:47 AM · Oct 31, 2022 ·Twitter for iPhone 1,953 Retweets 58 Quote Tweets 8,372 Likes
2 Pictures of Chart with Data.
The large majority comments to this tweet are absolutely awesome and uplifting. If you twitter make sure to check them out.
I believe that this generation which has been through the crucible of school shootings like no other in history, has suffered under opressive student debt, fought back against the Opiod Crisis, and experienced first hand 4 years of Racist, Misogynistic, Authoritarian Political Insanity is going to rock the very Earth and help generate the biggest Blue Wave ever.
So let's all get out there and HELP THEM LEAD THE WAY!
GOTV GOTV GOTV
#GOTV2022
#BLUEWAVE2022
#ROEVEMBER2022
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AND,
Vox, Sept 2022: Tom Bonier:
... Tom Bonier, the CEO of the political data firm TargetSmart, has been analyzing publicly available voter files for every state. And he says that the data shows that young people (particularly young women) are registering to vote at a significantly higher rate in states where abortion rights are under threat since the Supreme Court’s June decision ...
Kansas was the first state I looked at to see what had been going on leading up to the ballot initiative there. Voter registration data lags by a little bit, just depending on how and when the state reports it. But we were able to get enough data from Kansas, basically looking at registered voters before Dobbs and after Dobbs, and saw that women were 69 percent of the new registrants post-Dobbs and up to the ballot initiative election, which was crazy. I’ve just never seen anything like it.
Generally, voter registration is split pretty close to 50-50. It varies a little bit by state, but not much. To see a period of time over several weeks where women accounted for almost 70 percent of registered voters — I’ve never seen anything like that. ...
What’s interesting to me is, when you see surges in enthusiasm reflected in registration historically, it almost always is then mirrored in surges in enthusiasm and turnout among those groups overall. So ... it it indicates that women in general are far more attuned to this election and therefore far more likely to vote.
We saw it in 2018, when younger voters were registering at a much higher rate than they had in the previous two midterms. And sure enough, younger voters almost doubled their vote share between 2014 and 2018. So the data we’re seeing here is similar.
... Tom Bonier, the CEO of the political data firm TargetSmart, has been analyzing publicly available voter files for every state. And he says that the data shows that young people (particularly young women) are registering to vote at a significantly higher rate in states where abortion rights are under threat since the Supreme Court’s June decision ...
Kansas was the first state I looked at to see what had been going on leading up to the ballot initiative there. Voter registration data lags by a little bit, just depending on how and when the state reports it. But we were able to get enough data from Kansas, basically looking at registered voters before Dobbs and after Dobbs, and saw that women were 69 percent of the new registrants post-Dobbs and up to the ballot initiative election, which was crazy. I’ve just never seen anything like it.
Generally, voter registration is split pretty close to 50-50. It varies a little bit by state, but not much. To see a period of time over several weeks where women accounted for almost 70 percent of registered voters — I’ve never seen anything like that. ...
What’s interesting to me is, when you see surges in enthusiasm reflected in registration historically, it almost always is then mirrored in surges in enthusiasm and turnout among those groups overall. So ... it it indicates that women in general are far more attuned to this election and therefore far more likely to vote.
We saw it in 2018, when younger voters were registering at a much higher rate than they had in the previous two midterms. And sure enough, younger voters almost doubled their vote share between 2014 and 2018. So the data we’re seeing here is similar.
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