Posted on 02/28/2018 10:20:50 AM PST by caww
Super young voters, those 22 and under known as Generation Z, are offering Republicans a chance to claim some of the youth vote lost when millennials fell hard for former President Barack Obama.
Swing state changes from 2012 to 2016 were more dramatic and impactful. In Florida, the Democratic margin of victory for the youth vote from 2012 to 2016 dropped 16 points. In both Ohio and Pennsylvania, the drop was 19 points. In Wisconsin, it was 20 points. These dramatic declines helped give Republican Donald Trump a win in each of these states, pushing him over the top in the Electoral College, he found.
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Who knew telling the truth worked?
Somewhere in the last four years of the Bush period, you could sense that people were getting fed up with fake politics...from both the GOP and Democrats.
Whole Obama period....with the media in full swing...it was fairly fake, and people were just skeptical about everything that was said.
So along come Trump. Trump isn’t a political figure and his profile for the past twenty years is business and entertainment. His blend of reality isn’t fake.
What I’m wondering about...when he finishes in 2024, the public isn’t going to easily accept the standard fake political agenda business. I realize we are seven years away, but I’m kinda wondering where to find this next Trump-character.
A Democrat would respond, "Compared to what?"
There is a whole generation who has NEVER seen an up-market in both stocks and real estate.
Wishful thinking?
Lol
My lovely daighter and son-in-law are embarrassed to be Millenials. Like my lovely wife and I are embarrassed to be Boomers, where so much of this crap started.
The prospect of spending the rest of one’s life in his parents’ basement would tend to make one look around for better possibilities for the future.......
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