'It's Generations X and Y, Stupid!'

Reuters, Generational Targeted Marketing ^ | 1-4-2008 | Ann Fishman

[Tamar1973]

I am older than YOU!! lol

Apparently. LOL!

[inflorida]

My earliest election memory is of Reagan/Mondale. I was in the first grade and my elementary school had a mock election. Reagan won by a landslide

I'm a bit older than you (born in 1974) but my earliest election memory is also of Reagan in 1980. In fact my father insisted on bringing me to the Inauguration and although I had no interest at six years old (would rather have played with my Barbies), I am so grateful that I attended. The memories are priceless.

[Tamar1973]

I’m apparently from that generation and when I was growing up we still had the phones on the wall that you had to dial and if someone pissed you off you could brain them with the receiver alone they were so heavy.

ROTFLMAO!

[stentorian conservative]

I swear if I hear “Agent of Change” one more time I’m gonna be sick. Wonder who coined that one? Must be Obama.

[unspun]

What candidate(s) have been using that phrase?

[wardaddy]

I think Gen Xand Y were instrumental in Obama but like my 19 year old daughter sez.....all her pals support Ron Paul

no war and free dope....what’s not to love right?

I doubt kids had much to do with Huckster

Kids have always voted more lefty as a rule since messianic humanism took off 100 years ago....today is no different

[gondramB]

>>He was and so what? Mitt being from the NE isn’t going to do it for him in NH either.<<

My point was that Clinton’s poor performance in Iowa was not taken seriously since he didn’t campaign there and Harken was from Iowa. If Harkin lost Iowa or Romney loses New Hampshire it would be news.

[Disambiguator]

Generation X, born between 1961 and 1981

If Xers were born between '61 and '81, and Boomers were born between '45 and '64, what do you call those who were born between '61 and '64? Xoomers? (I'm asking because both my wife and I are in this group.)

[JohnD9207]

Between X’s and Y’s and all this other crap, throw in a little self esteem issue, along with Dr. Phil and this has got to be the most convoluted logic ever printed. No wonder Obama excites them....geez??

[stentorian conservative]

I must have heard it ten dozen times last night on Brit Hume's "Panel." Campaign Carl, that political blow-hard-so-and-so who is in Huckleberry's corner (Chris Wallace pinned his arse to the wall last night btw) and about a dozen other folks who I never bothered looking up from my knitting to see. As for a candidate. . . I couldn't tell ya.

[GOP_Raider]

Ah, excellent point, thanks for pointing that out.

[unspun]

Ed Rollins should be dismissed.

If Huckabee won’t dismiss Rollins, how about loose cannons in the cabinet, etc.?

[Spktyr]

More properly, his *re*election campaign.

[stentorian conservative]

Rollins! That's the chap. Good on ya.

He gave me a good opportunity to teach my teens that nothing said in public is ever "private."

[unspun]

— and Rollins is an example of the kind of guy who should stick to private life, it seems.

[scrabblehack]

I was born in ‘63, but I consider myself a boomer, because my father was WWII generation; my mom was silent generation...

It’s quite possible that no one of the silent generation will ever be elected President...George H.W. Bush (1924), just at the end of the WWII generation, followed by Clinton (1946), the first of the boomers...

Fred Thompson (1942) and Rudy Giuliani (1944) have a shot...this is probably McCain’s (1936) last chance...

[Jack Black]

Oops. What about Generation Jones? That's the most pro-Republican voting block in the nation. They put Bush over the top in 2004.

1954-1965

[Secret Agent Man]

Well, they got the timeline of Gen X and Y wrong. Baby boomers are 1946-1965, which makes Gex X between 1966-1985, and Gen Y between 1986-2005.

1946 is the start of the boomers as it is AFTER the war is over. Generations generally run 20 years at a crack.

Splitting a small hair, but it peeves me they screw this up.

[unspun]

Born in 1959 and sure didn’t identify with the weird “baby boom generation” — nor the MTV generation.

[LibertyRocks]

I actually remember the last half of Carter’s presidency... At least bits and pieces of it. I have a very vivid memory of hearing the # of days that the hostages had been held in Iran — it was like day 127 or 167 — I know it was less than 200 days...

And, yes, there was a mock election in our school, too... I think I was in 3rd grade? LOL It was a TOTAL landslide in our mock election too — but then what would you expect in an Upper Middle Class Catholic school, especially with Reagan? LOL