Kerry's SECRET WEAPON: The Millennials (ages 18 - 22), Not yet in polls.

[Dems Will Win]

A lot of them are not registered or new registers, and don't have regular phones and so cannot be polled! They all have cell phones, are students, etc. Half believe the DRAFT is coming in 2005 if Bush is reselected.

We're getting set here to register all the young people we can and voting by this group will be way up this year--from the lower forties above 50%, maybe even close to 55%.

The youngest voters are a new progressive generation, the Millennials. Unlike the far more conservative GenXers, the Millennials often had Boomer hippie parents and echo their politics.

2004, the Year of the Democrat, is already being super-powered by this new generation, and will be the first election in which progressive Boomers and progressive Millennials make a "generation sandwich" out of the GenXers.

In 2000, there were barely any Millennials eligible to vote. In 2004 there are 15 MILLION. And they are 2-to-1 against Bush--AND THEY ARE ACTIVISTS!!! Many are already signed up to volunteer for the campaign.

After 2 or 3 million 18-22 years old register in the next 30 days, Kerry will have his secret weapon loaded. Wisconsin and Missouri, as well as Nevada, New Hampshire and New Mexico will likely be the swing states most affected.

After 2004, this country is going to go so far to the left you won't recognize it. Here's how many Millennials are coming of age to vote, by election (although about 30% remain conservative politically):

2008 - 30 MILLION MILLENNIALS
2012 - 45 MILLION MILLENNIALS
2016 - 60 MILLION MILLENNIALS
2020 - 75 MILLION MILLENNIALS

Did you have progressive Boomer parents? Are you a Millennial?
DON'T YOU FEEL, JUST A LITTLE BIT, LIKE A SECRET WEAPON??

[cthrumatrix]

1. sbrub is screwed....the corp. media can't save the liar

[MrBenchley]

2. Remember, those numbers too

when the Republicans tell you Social Security can't pay for itself and that the only hope is to invest it in Enron, er, Tyco, er, Hollinger, er, the stock market.

[Worst Username Ever]

3. I'm 27 and all I have is a cell phone.

There are a lot of people out there. The question is who is more tech savvy (and therefor more likely to have a lot of voters on wireless, instead of land line, and therefor, are being missed by the polls), dems or rethugs?

[calico1]

4. I really do hope a lot of these young people

turn out to vote. I really do. This election could affect them more personally than any other group.

[mimitabby]

5. check out musicforamerica.org

this is a website that attracts those millennials to concerts of their favorite music and then gets them to register to vote.
AWESOME

[Walt Starr]

6. They were supposed to be Dean's secret weapon in Iowa, too

I'm not counting on them. We need to take this thing with the likely voters.

If the millenials show up, then it's a landslide, but I'm biting my nails all the way on this one.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

8. They showed up, but they voted for Kerry in greater numbers

[Dems Will Win]

11. They turned out in Iowa

But for Kerry and Edwards because they saw them as more able to beat Bush.

And that's what they want.

When the Millennials join with the Hispanic registration drives, and P.Diddy and Russell Simmons drive and Rock the Vote and NAACP and the environmental drives and then the ANTI-DRAFT organizations begin their coordinated campaign in October, it really will be something to see...

...WHEN THEY ALL JOIN WITH THE 2 MILLION KERRY VOLUNTEERS!!

[Walt Starr]

14. And I'm still biting my nails

and will continue to bite my nails.

I won't stop biting my nails until after Kerry finishes the oath of office on January 20, 2005!

[Dems Will Win]

19. They'll be going to the polls with their bells on and their paper dragons!

Oh and great work Walt on the Medals!

What do you have next for us?

[JPJones]

12. 17% of Iowa voters were aged 17-29

Only 15% were aged 30-44. They showed up.

However, 35% of the young caucusers voted for Kerry, while 25% voted for Dean.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/primaries/pages/epolls/IA/index.html

[MuseRider]

7. Both of my sons

fit that category and both will be voting for Kerry. Of all their friends only one remains a Bush* supporter but I have spent enough time talking to him that he *may* go Kerry, I am just not certain.

[Dems Will Win]

13. Talk to him about Wes Clark's book and the secret plan to invade

Syria, Iran and Lebanon and how the SSS is holding a MOCK DRAFT LOTTERY to test the DRAFT system this year!

[kwolf68]

9. Agree agree

The GenXs (of which I am one) believed that money was the God of our age. The greed, selfishness have been so ingrained in our nation. Propaganda is being used to sway these people toward a social-Darwinist view of this nation.

I hope the next generation can save us from the evil ruse.

[madmax]

10. Help me out ...

Saw an piece on CNN this a.m. interviewing single women who don't vote. Their excuse ran from what's the difference, too busy to research the issues and some of these women were professionals e.g. a lawyer :eyesroll:

I can't remember the number given but, I think it was 20 Million!! What is wrong with these women!!!

I tried google couldn't find any stats or any info re: the CNN piece.

[Katha]

15. I'm a Millennial

20 years old, and proudly voting in my first presidential election. All of my friends are registered to vote, and a good 90% of them are going for Kerry. (Of course, we're in California -- but still!)

I'll be in England for the election (I'm leaving Friday) but I've already arranged for an absentee ballot to be sent to me over there. No way am I missing out on this vote! I don't think I could sleep at night if I did.

[Dems Will Win]

16. Great!

Millennials TO THE RESCUE!!

WOOO HOOO!

[Dems Will Win]

20. Here's my song:

You are the Millennials
You've got to get up, get up and do it!

You are the Millennials
You are the ones that will
change the world
and everything in it

You are the Millennials
You are the ones that will
Sieze the Fire
It begins this minute!

You Are!
You Are!
You and you and you and you and you and you and YOU!

[incapsulated]

17. A lot registered during the primaries, too

We need to hammer them with the threat of the draft, as well. I think it's beginning to sink in.

[rogerashton]

18. This could make an old geezer like me

feel plumb young again!

[trogdor]

21. Class of 2005, this means YOU!

Turning 18 before Election Day? Registered to vote yet? Why not?

[Kosmos Mariner]

22. I appreciate your enthusiasm BUT......

....I think your analysis is way off. I have been hearing some lib Boomers at work this week gushing about the coming golden era ushered in by the Millennials! They are going to save us from the EVIL Gen X. What a CROCK!!

I am 27, so I guess that makes me a young X. We are certainly NOT the problem. Growing up, I lived in different places, with very different cultures, and MOST of the people my age were always VERY PROGRESSIVE. For example, racial differences, sexual orientation, and gender differences were fairly transparent in our worldview, compared to my parent's time. I can remember it like it was yesterday when Clinton defeated Bush I in 1992. My high school rejoiced, but most parents sure didn't!

The Boomers have always slammed the Xers from day one, and made us the scape goats for all of society's problems. X is too close to the young Boomers, lots of competition and jealousy in my opinion. X always got the BS label of slackers. I think that the very big technology skill gap alone, has always made Boomers wary of us. Like I said, some age difference, but not enough to stop some young savvy kids from leap frogging some Boomers up the corporate ladder.

I think to look at the "Millennials" as some monolithic savior generation is a joke. There will be plenty of liberals, and plenty of conservatives just like their Boomer parents. I think the Boomers go easy on this new emerging generation because a lot of these kids are the "baby's" of the family, and there is much more of an age difference. A lot more love and a lot less jealously. More like grandparents than parents.


:dem:

[Dems Will Win]

24. I agree with you

The end of any generation is a transition to the next type.

So younger GenXers could be very progressive indeed. And that shows up in the polls with the entire 18-29 group polling at 53% for Kerry to 33% for Bush.

Scott Beale of the Millennial Manifesto says the Millennial Generation started in 1976. Which would make you one! (Strauss and Howe in Generations say 1982)

It's not so much the new generation will do it all by themselves, we are going to change the way the world works together or not at all. But their added progressivism and activism tilt the odds in our favor as they have not been in a long, long time.

That's what's exciting and real about the Millennials.

And it does not matter when you were born but who you are inside.

Gandhi said: Be the Change you want to see in the world.

I think all the new progressive young people are great and somehow want to be that change.

[yellowcanine]

23. My two daughters are Millennials! Unfortunately the youngest is only 16 -

but I am sure she will be voting for Kerry's reelection in 08.