Posted on 09/14/2024 8:26:50 PM PDT by Red Badger
Young women are more liberal than they have been in decades, according to a Gallup analysis of more than 20 years of polling data.
Over the past few years, about 4 in 10 young women between the ages of 18 and 29 have described their political views as liberal, compared with two decades ago when about 3 in 10 identified that way.
For many young women, their liberal identity is not just a new label. The share of young women who hold liberal views on the environment, abortion, race relations and gun laws has also jumped by double digits, Gallup found.
Young women “aren’t just identifying as liberal because they like the term or they’re more comfortable with the term, or someone they respect uses the term,” said Lydia Saad, the director of U.S. social research at Gallup. “They have actually become much more liberal in their actual viewpoints.”
While it is hard to pinpoint what is making young women more liberal, they now are overwhelmingly aligned on many issues, which could make it easier for campaigns to motivate them.
Young women are already a constituency that has leaned Democratic — AP VoteCast data shows that 65% of female voters under 30 voted for Democrat Joe Biden in 2020 — but they are sometimes less reliable when it comes to turnout.
Young women began to diverge ideologically from other groups, including men between 18 and 29, women over 30 and men over 30, during Democrat Barack Obama‘s presidency. That trend appears to have accelerated more recently.
The change in young women’s political identification is happening across the board, Gallup found, rather than being propelled by a specific subgroup.
Taylor Swift’s endorsement Tuesday of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, after her debate against Trump, illustrated one of the issues where young women have moved to the left. In Swift’s Instagram announcing the endorsement praised Harris and running mate Tim Walz for championing infanticide.
The Gallup analysis found that since the Obama era, young women have become nearly 20 percentage points more likely to support broad abortion rights. There was a roughly similar increase in the share of young women who said protection of the environment should be prioritized over economic growth and in the share of young women who say gun laws should be stricter.
Now, Saad said, solid majorities of young women hold liberal views on issues such as abortion, the environment, and gun laws.
“You’ve got supermajorities of women holding these views,” she said.
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New battle lines are being drawn, and everything is up for grabs. People are all shifting, moving around. Republicans, they say 200 Legislatures will vote for Harris, and Democrats will vote for Trump. So don’t count you chicks until they hatch.
they are wired that way ...
Too many softball line drives to the head can make you retarded and liberal. Same with trashing your skull on the backboard while trying to dunk one.
In other words they are getting more and more debauched.
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I went to the Trump rally in my hometown of Tucson Arizona on Thursday. There was a large number of young women in their 20’s and 30’s there. Actually, there were more young people there than us old farts.
“... While it is hard to pinpoint what is making young women more liberal.”
I’ll proffer a hypothesis... the young female cohort is probably the heaviest into social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram on which leftist viewpoints are pushed by celebrities as well as popular “influencers.”
>> I’ll proffer a hypothesis... the young female cohort is probably the heaviest into social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram on which leftist viewpoints are pushed by celebrities as well as popular “influencers.”
Exhibit A: The popularity and influence of the vapid, unattractive and untalented bimbo Taylor Swift.
Liberal doesn’t accurately describe them. They’ve left the liberal plantation. Now, they’re neo-Marxists.
Let them fight the damn wars then.
I’m sorry but they are the biggest idiots imaginable.
The distribution of their potential mates is considerably more conservative. Which means that they are going to be fighting over a limited number of males that share their beliefs to find a mate or a group of more conservative males that view these women as just bangable. A lot of them are going to be unhappy although socialists go through their entire lives being unhappy. They are only happy when they make other people unhappy.
There’s going to be a lot of old cat ladies in 40 years...............
Destroy the young men in their age group and young women will want the security of being ‘married to the State’. That kind of thinking did wonders for the black community starting with LBJ’s great society. /s
What a disaster.
Which is why they're importing the next generation of voters.
It’s over. What American young men would want to reproduce with self-centered nutjobs, which comprise a huge portion of young women?
Feels like we're the Weimar Republic in the 1920s.
I hope they like celebacy
Not this one. Since I was 16, I’ve always leaned right.
Probably because I was a tomboy - I likely don’t think the same way many other women do.
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