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Looking for Statistics on Political Breakdown of Generations X and Y: Please Help

Posted on 08/07/2005 12:32:20 PM PDT by Alexander Rubin

As I said, I am looking for statistics on how Generation X and Y votes, whom it supports and critical political issues for them. If you know of any, please post them here.


TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: domyhomework4me; generationy; genx; ineedadiorama; stats
Thank you in advance.
1 posted on 08/07/2005 12:32:20 PM PDT by Alexander Rubin
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To: Alexander Rubin

Google "voting statistics by age"


2 posted on 08/07/2005 12:35:44 PM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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To: Alexander Rubin
Google is your friend.

http://www.google.com/search?q=generation+x+political+affiliation

http://www.google.com/search?q=generation+y+political+affiliation

3 posted on 08/07/2005 12:35:50 PM PDT by Prime Choice (Thanks to the Leftists, yesterday's deviants are today's "alternate lifestyles.")
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Thanks. Hrmmm. We need some work with my generation, but the situation doesn't look too bad.


4 posted on 08/07/2005 12:41:31 PM PDT by Alexander Rubin
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To: Alexander Rubin
We need some work with my generation, but the situation doesn't look too bad.

I would have to agree. I'm a Baby-Boomer manly man married to a Gen-X girly girl.   :o)

5 posted on 08/07/2005 12:46:55 PM PDT by Prime Choice (Thanks to the Leftists, yesterday's deviants are today's "alternate lifestyles.")
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"I would have to agree. I'm a Baby-Boomer manly man married to a Gen-X girly girl."

Excellent to hear. That's wonderful. Congrats to you both! I'm a Gen-X male still looking for a highly intelligent, highly feminine conservative woman, 25 to 35. I may live in a state which Bush won (Ohio), but the area in Ohio where I live was pretty much all Kerry last election. I think perhaps my expectations (coupled with demographics) work against me. I should move back to Texas; I had better luck down there!
6 posted on 08/07/2005 12:54:15 PM PDT by jdm (The answer to the extra credit question on a Columbia U exam is always choice C: "Bush's Fault.")
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To: Alexander Rubin
Alexander, Are you Generation X or Y? I'm guessing Y. I'm X -- however, I think both X and Y tend to be fairly conservative (despite what the media, research, etc. indicates).

Most of my friends, for instance, are more conservative than their parents. I also have a few liberal friends simply because it's fun to argue politics over pizza, beer, etc.

The political classes I completed while in college were pretty tough. Very stringent professors. No professor I remember rewarded A's to any students (again, limited to political courses only).

I averaged a B+ in political-related classes. I basically BS'd my way through the assignments. Use a lot of big words and automatically you're positioned towards the top of the class, regardless of how well you argue your point(s).

That's how it worked for me; granted, I didn't attend an Ivy League school.
7 posted on 08/07/2005 1:04:43 PM PDT by jdm (The answer to the extra credit question on a Columbia U exam is always choice C: "Bush's Fault.")
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Excellent to hear. That's wonderful. Congrats to you both!

Thanks! We just had our 4-year anniversary last month.   :o)

I think perhaps my expectations (coupled with demographics) work against me. I should move back to Texas; I had better luck down there!

Never underestimate the power of high circulation among like-minded friends. I met my wife during a pre-Christmas weekend getaway with friends. She was a friend of a friend who had just finished her finals and wanted a break, so she came along. Stole my heart away, she did.   :o)

8 posted on 08/07/2005 1:20:16 PM PDT by Prime Choice (Thanks to the Leftists, yesterday's deviants are today's "alternate lifestyles.")
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To: jdm

Gen Y. I'm 21 (or will be soon). My parents are pretty liberal, but my dad has a few conservative strong points. Though in outlook, I like to think I take after my grandfather, who was quite conservative.

I'm doing a double major in history and poli sci, and I'm an A student. My experience is that the best marks go to papers that have positions that the professors resent, but they can't argue with. For example, if you are in a class with a liberal professor, and you put forth a conservative paper, you are probably going to get a bad mark if you don't back it up. But if you write a watertight case, you'll get a better mark than liberals who write watertight cases (my theory is that it's tolerance backfiring on the professors: they can get away with giving bad marks to poorly written papers that they hate, but if its a good paper and the student complains, they get in trouble: so they overcompensate by giving better than expected marks to conservative students.)

I write argument papers the same way I used to debate (and still do) for the team: start with a virtually undeniable premise, then extrapolate from there with reasonable points, forestall any criticism by mentioning them yourself and then shutting them down, and control your language. Works pretty well on the whole. The only people it doesn't work on are people who are so extreme that they will deny the undeniable premises, in which case they look foolish anyways and all you need to do is poke fun at them, and run rings around them by using ad absurdum arguments.


9 posted on 08/07/2005 2:05:29 PM PDT by Alexander Rubin
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