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In reply to the discussion: So if the Democrats lose the senate. [View all]craigmatic
(4,510 posts)The youth are a civic generation. The boomers fought the culture wars which are over now. Xers are a small generation which is slightly libertarian. That just leaves the Millennials who have grown up (myself included) watching all the petty arguments play out and want to see the government function and see important business get done like fixing the student loan crisis. We've seen Obama use the government to keep us on our parents' insurance and we want more of the government giving us a hand up. We just spent the last decade watching bush fail and most of us don't really blame Obama for the mess. As for the latino immigrants the first two generations of them are usually fairly liberal to moderate but that fades by the third due to religion and culture. Not to mention the gop is making no secret about their opposition to their children being allowed to stay. The repubs are digging their own graves here. Even the Cubans are starting to abandon them. So to sums all this up we're sitting pretty for the next 20 some years or so if they consistently turn out to vote.