Posted on 11/09/2024 7:07:18 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The 2024 election saw some big shifts in how the generations voted, early exit poll data suggested.
Democrats lost a lot of ground with Gen Z, while Republicans won Gen X by a much wider margin than in 2020. Meanwhile, millennials had a much smaller rightward shift, and boomers were actually more likely to vote Democratic than four years ago.
The results challenge some long-held stereotypes about generations' political positions. For example, the presumed progressive Gen Zers showed more conservative leanings this election than the last, and aging boomers shirked the notion that they're growing more conservative with age.
To be sure, early exit poll data has a wide margin of error. As more votes are counted in the coming days and months, more precise data on the shape of the 2024 electorate will be released.
The youngest voters and those entering middle age tacked hard to the right. Gen X — which slightly favored president-elect Donald Trump with a one-point margin in 2020 — shifted 9 points toward Trump this cycle. Gen Z favored Vice President Kamala Harris by 11 points, compared to 24 points for President Joe Biden.
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Gen X is old enough to remember how good the 80s and 90s were and see it slipping away.
Gen Z is waking up to the economic pain inflicted on them by the uniparty.
Really it's Gen Z males who are overwhelmingly pro-Trump and they all took the red pill.
Yeah. And they ruffied there wives with 2 red pills. Just ask one of the Joys of Death. And don’t forget to clap like zombie seal. Missyou Dolores and cant wait to see you again. Y6
Lot of millennials are children of the Boomers. Both generations are screwed up.
That explains Zuckerberg.
Gen X grew up with this.
Crom laughs at the woke left. He laughs from his mountain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAFtiUoq6TE
Gen X is based.
Speaking for Gen X, our formative years were the 80s. The culture was much better then. America was funner, funnier, happier and more unified. We still had a thriving middle class. We look at the woke nightmare today and realize how badly we’ve slipped.
I don’t credit anything out of Business Insider.
Gen Z has seen a Democrat in the White House for 12 of the 16 years they can actually remember in politics, and the American Dream seems increasingly out of reach for them.
With the internet and all the new markets and opportunities these kids want to be entrepreneurs, movers and shakers and maybe President of The United States. In Trump they see it's possible.
Thank God for Elon Musk!
Now President Trump needs to end all federal funds for the Universities to stop the indoctrination of our Youth.
I agree entirely but it pays to be wary; the Democrats are like evil: It never sleeps.
Yes. We have four years to prepare for Gavin Newsom running for President in 2028. He’s a skilled politican. He’s cunning. He’s not going to make the mistakes Harris and Clinton made during their campaigns. So we have work to do.
Yeah Newsom is as oily and as slick as they come.
FR might want to do a real watch on him.
Thanks to Elon Musk, the Democrats won't be able to cover up everything.
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