I call NYT B.S on this. Otherwise, this is the most depressing graph I’ve seen in a long time. Just look at the left side (no pun intended).
When undecided voters ponder the question of “how will the next President choose the SCOTUS judges” Obama will LOSE AT the voting booths.
“Interestingly, older voters — many of whom supported Democrats over the years — seem reluctant to support Mr. Obama” ..... and so will everybody else be “reluctant” to support barack mcgovern.
When I was a teenage hippie, the romance of self-righteous poverty appealed to me. A few years teaching highschool on an Indian reservation taught me that there’s nothing romantic about poverty.
Someone wrote that poverty is romantic in your twenties, dull in your thirties, and tragic in your forties. When I was in my thirties I became a homeowner and realized that my little piece of the pie was going to be held up for social welfare schemes which benefitted no one but politicians. Wow, big attitude adjustment.
I’m skeptical this graph measures much more than feelings about Bush for that age group. Kids under 30 only know Bush since their adult lives, and have been drilled by the media/Hollywood that Bush = Hitler.
And I’ll wager that the sample was skewed heavily to urban/leftist areas. I doubt they polled a lot of bible study groups.
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I’m a GenXer, but I’m toward the younger end; the part that starts skewing to the Democrats. I don’t know how much of that is really generational versus the fact that younger people tend to be more liberal, and that will change over time.
This data is from registered voters, not likely voters. And the older you are, the more likely you will actually show up to vote.
Advantage: McCain.