“The youngest boomers could not even vote for Reagan the first time he ran.”
If you’re going to engage on generational topics, you ought to know what generations came when. The oldest Boomers were born in the early to mid 40s. If you were born in 1945, you had plenty of time to age into an 18 year old or even 21 year old voter in California in 1966. And that isn’t even taking to account that you probably erred again by not even knowing Reagan was running for governor of Calfornia in his first election.
And btw, the Boomers damn sure did give us LBJ, because their rampant idiocy helped give us FJK. And no, I didn’t get those first two letters backwards. Finally, while I can’t find any polls that show the majority of Boomers did or didn’t vote for McGovern, they sure turned out to vote in ‘72 and stopped voting in droves after he lost. I’d love to see where you find polls showing Boomers were generally against McGovern, because I really, really doubt that.
A. The Census Bureau ID boomers as those born 1946-1964.
B. In federal elections, the voting age was 21 until 1971.
C. LBJ was elected in 1964. The youngest voters then were born in 1943. McGovern ran in 1972. The youngest voters there were born in 1954. Most boomers were still kids, at home, living with parents. They couldn't vote. Most were 8-17 years old. The youngest boomers couldn't vote for Governor or President Reagan until 1984. Boomers born from November 62-64 could not vote in 1980.