How many “boomers” (born in the baby boom following WWII) weren’t old enough to vote in 1973?
It doesn’t matter how many boomers were voting as kids in the 1972 election when the 18 to 29 year old vote went Republican by 52%, Roe v Wade was a Supreme Court decision, and the states that had already legalised abortion years before, did it without teenagers and little children being involved, it was purely adults and the people that ran the nation.
Do you really think that 10 year olds, 24 year olds and 15 year olds are running our Supreme Court and Government right now?
Since the oldest boomers would have only been 27 the answer is ‘most of them.’ Then add in the fact that younger eligible voters are the least likely to vote. Then account for the fact that even fewer could have voted in the previous presidential election of 1972. No election at all in ‘73. So the boomer influence on politics in 1973 was close to complete insignificance.
Probably the majority of us since 1960 and 1961 had the most births of all years of the baby boom.I was born in ‘60 and would’ve been 13 Sept before election day 1973.