[politico 2006]

Fascinating stuff. I saw Pontell on Fox News Channel and MSNBC in the last few days talking about Generation Jones and its potential huge role in the midterms, and I must say, he makes a strong case for it. This link to more about this is really eye-opening:http://www.generationjones.com/2006midterms.html

[goldstategop]

I'm a Jonesing Jones for the GOP. LOL! I was born in 1962.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[gov_bean_ counter]

Pubbies got the Jones, Dems got the Johnsons.

[cripplecreek]

I see that FOX brought Pat Cadell out to worry the democrats tonight.

[patton]

Finally, somebody doesn't lump us with the damn boomers.

[Free Vulcan]

I hope they flip the Dems the middle finger.

I think there are a number of momentum variables the Dems haven't taken into account that will crush their hopes of victory.

[avacado]

I'm a Jones-er and I am pulling straight Rs tomorrow.... baaaaaaaaaby!

[lesser_satan]

Ping to interesting commentary on generational politics, although it's not gen-x.

[sageb1]

My brother, born in '54, is more of a boomer than a Joneser. But I have a sister born in '61 who takes no prisoners. ;)

I remember when I was in college, my sister complained to me that our parents were the only ones who were still together and that many of her classmates were going to school stoned or drunk. I considered the Jonsers the beginning of the end. I hope I'm wrong.

[samm1148]

I was born in 1960. I remember Jimmy Carter: I learned economics when he raised prices on an already scarce resource and damn near did what no enemy foreign ever had done.

I was schooled being told that we had all of these "problems" to solve: The environment, racial problems, etc. The older I got the more I realized that those were manufactured problems.

The article never mentions it either but I can remember when America was a free country: People talked to each other and not lawyers to solve problems. Perverts were afraid to approach children because the police would hurt them then arrest them. Older brothers had fast loud cars that threw up plumes of pollution but here we are (no environmental apocalypse). Shame was very real so most people were ashamed to get handouts and they worked instead. There were government agencies but they did necessary things and had little enforcement power. We could buy guns out of the back of hunting magazines and crime was no where like it is now.

Okay enough ranting here. Get out and vote tomorrow! See ya there.

[narses]

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[hemogoblin]

Aww, I thought I finally had a generation to belong to (1964), but the more I read it appeared sadly not.

The first thing that terrified me as a kid was the Munich massacre.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Hmm, well I was born in '52, so I guess I'm not included?

Except for the part about "indulging", it all fits me pretty well. And about that, so what. Even stoned, I'd never have voted for a liberal.

[FlyVet]

The Joneses, who were born between 1954 and 1965, are usually included in the boomer cohort, but Jonathan Pontell, a pop culture consultant who coined the name, says that's a mistake.

Great! I'm off the hook!

[1rudeboy]

I found this article to describe me rather well.

[TruthConquers]

I have always resented being lumped in with the boomer's.

I was born in 1955, and when Carter was Pres, boy did that idiot get my attention. I was so happy Regan was running that I remember when he campaigned near me at Mile Square Park, I went to my first political stump speech. I was noticing the bias on TV news reporting back even then.

[Hildy]

I was born in 1959 and always resented being called a BOOMER, because I'm not...but I'm not an x or Y either. I'm glad I finally have a identify ;)

[aliquando]

This fits me, and I was born in 1967, I definitely do not fit with the X'rs (my sister 1974 does)and I am definitely not a Boomer. All my high school buddies were big Reagan fans, even though we could never vote for him.

[Saije]

"What makes them different from the boomers is that during their formative years, while their older brothers and sisters were indulging the hedonistic pleasures of Woodstock, they were at home watching the Brady Bunch and supping on mashed potatoes with both parents at the dinner table. They were not traumatized by the Kennedy assassination, but were terrified by Jimmy Carter's Iranian hostage crisis. They weren't interested in kicking Richard Nixon around, but were grateful to Ronald Reagan for restoring America's strength in the world."

This is absolutely true. I was born in 1958. Too young to "play" in the 1960s but old enough to remember a lot of it and to see how shallow and hypocritical those "peace, baby" types turned out to be.

[Defiant]

That's me! I hated the hippies when I was a kid in the 60's and early 70's, and hated Carter in the late 70's. Ronald Reagan is my hero.

Only why do they call us "Jones"? I always thought of it as "old boomers" or "Obs" and "Young Boomers" or "Yubs". If they wanted to be cute they could call us the "Brady Boomers" as our childhoods coincided almost exactly with the Brady Bunch.

We can't be too smug, we did have to live through disco.

[shield]

My daughter was born later than that age group...but she and her military husband are extremely conservative. And both of them are lovers of Reagan. They've named their dog after Reagan, his name is Dutch.

So even the later generation than is in the report are extremely conservative and will be voting a straight R ticket. ;o)