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(34,303 posts)RockRaven
(14,784 posts)The first is that voting rates in that age group are starting at such a low point that even massive % increases don't necessarily translate to massive absolute numbers of votes.
The second is that a lot of the guys in Charlottesville, a lot of the Proud Boys, and Jacob Wohl all fall into that demographic too. We really don't know which young people are the ones doing the voting.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Polls show that millennials are overwhelmingly Democratic, the women by a huge percentage and even the men by a smaller margin. No way these huge numbers are coming only from alt-righters (a.k.a. Nazis).
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/03/new-survey-young-staying-liberal-conservatives-dying-off.html
JI7
(89,182 posts)Docreed2003
(16,817 posts)I'm anxiously keeping my fingers crossed
Quixote1818
(28,904 posts)Being sky high.
iluvtennis
(19,758 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)They are PISSED OFF, to say the least.
They are all voting, or have already voted, Democratic party.
world wide wally
(21,719 posts)appalachiablue
(41,056 posts)Quixote1818
(28,904 posts)Nt