Quote (Plaguefear @ 18 Oct 2018 00:54)
What do Republicans intend to do with all these babies anyway? Good chance it's another 40 million dem voters in that generation, and more in the next.
https://nypost.com/2017/07/01/why-the-next-generation-after-millennials-will-vote-republican/Quote
Last year was the first presidential election in which Generation Z voted, “yet there was virtually no attention paid to this demographic.”
In fact, in almost every case, its members were simply lumped in with their significantly different counterparts, the millennials, in the 18-to-29 age group.
“This was disingenuous and unfortunate and didn’t give the true picture of the election. Looking at the data, there was virtually no attempt to separate these two very different generations of voters.”
Brauer explains that, from 2012 to 2016, Democratic candidates lost 5 percent of the youth vote nationally (down from 60 percent to 55 percent)*. In Florida, Democrats’ margin of victory among the young dropped 16 percentage points. In both Ohio and Pennsylvania, the drop was 19 points. In Wisconsin, 20 points.
“It is unlikely that such significant drops were simply due to the more liberal millennial generation changing their minds from one election to the next,” said Brauer.
“It is much more likely the precipitous drops were due to the more conservative Generation Z being able, for the first time, to express their political inclinations, especially in the economically hard-hit swing states.”
Therefore, Generation Z possibly had a major, yet completely overlooked, impact in this historic election.
*nationally, the drop in Democratic vote share from 2012 to 2016 was 3%, so the 18-29 age group (millenials
plus Gen Z) drifted towards the GOP significantly stronger than the overall population.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleystahl/2017/08/11/why-democrats-should-be-losing-sleep-over-generation-z/This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Oct 18 2018 04:48am