Voter engagement by cohort

[PizzaSnake]

This could be interesting. Might change the crazy positions embraced by both parties as they realize they can’t keep shafting the younger section of the electorate. Maybe, just maybe they can effect some serious change. Like say, changing the FICA structure so they aren’t left holding bag, climate change since they gave a longer term perspective, female reproductive rights, systemic racism, death penalty, etc.

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of self-satisfied, unaccomplished bunch of twits as the baby boomers.

“ Massachusetts, the turnout among registered voters between 18 to 24 had shot up to 20.9 percent in the 2020 primary from 6.7 percent in 2018, and 2.1 percent in 2016, according to Tufts’s Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.“

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/us/t ... e=Homepage

[PizzaSnake]

"In case Republicans had not noticed, several of the groups they are busy offending with stunts such as opposition to the Jan. 6 commission and preference for corporate tax scofflaws are the same people turning out in larger numbers than ever before. TargetSmart, a Democratic data firm, reports that the youth vote, which remains strongly Democratic, increased in 2020 while “voters age 40-49 and 50-64 dropped by a significant margin.” Meanwhile, the groups Republicans aim to appeal to (at the expense of growing segments of the electorate) are declining. Another political data firm, the Catalist, found that “72% of the electorate was white, down 2 percentage points from 2016. This comes almost entirely from the decline in white voters without a college degree, who continue a steady decline (in percentage terms).” Republicans’ prime target, non-college-educated Whites, were a majority of the electorate in 2008. In 2020, they were down to 44 percent."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... -clueless/

Good thing these genius strategists are innumerate.