A Reminder: Younger voters were crucial to 'The Obama Coalition' [View all]

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Voters 65 years and older

McCain 53%, Obama 45%
Romney 56%, Obama 44%
Trump 52% Clinton 45%

Voters 18 - 29 years.

Obama 66%, McCain 32%
Obama 60%, Romney 37%
Clinton 55%, Trump 36%

The fact that 65+ years older voters have the highest turnout rates is a very good reason to put an effort into keeping younger voters onside.

There was a recent Dem VP who alienated younger voters. He won the 65+ years vote and "lost" (courtesy of SCOTUS)

Voters 65 years and older
Bush 47% Gore 51%
Voters 18 - 24 years
Bush 47% Gore 47%

If Gore had won anything like the 55% of younger voters that Bill and Hillary did in 1996 and 2016 respectively, you could have put down the glasses, but I'm guessing 'the kids' were less than impressed with Tipper's Parental Advisory's on their CD's, the V-Chip in their TVs, the VPs amazing efforts to protect Decency and Copyright from the Internet, not to mention his 'Morals Campaigner' running mate.

Results as per : https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/