Posted on 09/02/2025 10:36:10 AM PDT by CFW
A Yale Youth Poll from the spring of 2025 found that voters between the ages of 18 and 21 favored Republican candidates by double digits, which could be a sign that Democrats are finally slipping with America’s younger demographic.
The survey revealed that although young people between the ages of 22 and 29 favored the Democratic candidate in their home congressional district for the 2026 election by a margin of about six points, those aged 18 and 21 favored the Republican candidate in their home district by almost 12 points.
That’s a massive shift from years past, when younger voters in high school and college were virtually a lock for liberals. Has the left finally gone too far?
In a piece outlining the poll with various quotes from student leaders, The Washington Times wrote that the tide is indeed turning.
“The youngest eligible voters lean more conservative when it comes to other social views as well,” the story read. “They’re less likely to support transgender athletes in women’s sports and oppose more aid to Ukraine.”
“It’s starting to feel cool to be a conservative now,” 19-year-old Kieran Laffey told the outlet.
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
They have a huge lead with the sociology majors though.
Slipping? 🤣
The peasants are revolting!....................
Run with it! A new retirement system complete with Roth IRA’s starting at childbirth. Just tell them they’re getting screwed already. It will take a bit to sink in but they’ll catch on.
There shouldn’t be a white male in that generation that shouldn’t vote against any democratic candidate. The ground is fertile and needs to be sown.
I encourage older Conservatives to be welcoming to younger Conservatives. Younger people are making their way through a United States which has been fundamentally transformed by Barack Obama and his friends. We are $40T in debt. BlackRock owns an obscene amount of real estate, and corporate America is pleasing Wall St and screwing customers and employees. It’s tough out there. And I swear I see a lot of older Conservatives just laughing at the pathetic, lazy, stupid Gen Z people. “I made it big! I got mine! You’re struggling?? Sucks to be you! You should be more like me! And stop buying coffee at Starbucks!!” I think if we show some sympathy, the country will have more Conservatives long-term. Which would be nice.
I like to think that all the propoganda has finally backfired and that young people have trained themselves to become bullshit detectors.
“I encourage older Conservatives to be welcoming to younger Conservatives. “
Agreed. Gen Z does NOT have the opportunities we did. Regulations, more than inflation, have stifled so many of the opportunities that we took for granted.
You can’t easily start a small business out of your home. You can’t buy a few acres and put a small camper on it to use until you save enough to build. You can’t just let the community “grandma” watch your children for $50 bucks a week. Regulations and strict zoning rules now prohibit all three of those actions (and many more) that used to allow young people just starting out to move up the ladder to success.
Young MEN
Wait. Ages 18-21 is a “generation”?
A spoof on the song “its raining men” and make it about the Democrats “ it’s draining men”
Locking them down didn’t play too well.
I LOVE THIS!
I was the fun classroom mom at my daughter’s private school starting from grade K and going all the way to grade 8.
I am still close friends with several of the parents, and even funnier still — several of the little boys, now young men, that were in my daughter’s kindergarten class have now found, and friended me, on social media.
ALL OF THEM are hard core right wingers, big Trump kids, and I couldn’t be prouder of my “sons”. These young men are amazing, patriotic, and wonderful Americans (and they probably would still laugh at my doofusy jokes.)
Proud of them!!
Advice to Surrender Monkeys put some ice on it.
All my and my siblings’ children are conservative. Yes, they have conservative parents, but that doesn’t always transfer to the children. My nephews are all avid shooters, two are in law enforcement, and all of them want big families. My youngest son has 6 children and says they will have as many as God gives them.
It’s a good feeling to see the number of conservative youth grow and think we may have had just a little bit to do with it.
These kids had the first hand experience of socialist policies of forced vaccination, masks, social distance, school closure on top of all the DEI craps down their throats. They remember that when they can vote. GOP would do well by keep reminding that.
Yup—it is not just the insane Democrat policies.
Most Democrats are busybody jerks.
Young folks are starting to notice.
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