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To: Spktyr

No, the “boomers” are the generation born from 1946 to 1964, followed by generation X starting in 1965.

The first presidential election that all the boomers could vote in was 1984 to reelect Reagan.

Lets not have one of those silly, time consuming niche, or personalized definitions of boomer.

The common definition, the government definition, the Census Bureau definition, the one used by banking and corporations , and everyone in America that needs to share a common definition, uses 1946-1964.


14 posted on 08/11/2012 10:08:37 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: ansel12

So you are claiming that the boomers didn’t have any effect whatsoever in the elections from 1965 to 1979 and they only ever began to have relevance with Reagan.

Yeah, that would be NO. The supermajority of the Boomers were able to vote by 75 and they weighed in heavily in Carter’s election. 49% of the older Boomers (then age 30-44) voted for CARTER in 1976 (and 49% went for Ford). The younger boomers were even WORSE. 18-22’s went 51/46 for Carter. The pre-boomers went 47/52 for Ford.

Sorry dude. The first Boomer president was CARTER.


15 posted on 08/11/2012 10:49:28 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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