[Steely Tom]

This is the real reason the voting age was dropped to 18 in 1965 (during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, with both houses of Congress in Democrat hands).

[ConservativeStatement]

As I generally tell adult liberals, if most 11-year olds could vote, you would have something in common.

[Oliviaforever]

“This is the real reason the voting age was dropped to 18 in 1965 (during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, with both houses of Congress in Democrat hands).”

The 26th Amendment was adopted in 1971 during the presidency of Richard M. Nixon.

[ansel12]

This is the real reason the voting age was dropped to 18 in 1965 (during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, with both houses of Congress in Democrat hands).

Actually it happened on March 1971, Nixon was president, the Vietnam war, and the draft, and protests were raging........

Nixon won 52% of the under 30 vote, the democrats won 46%.