Turnout among 18-29 year olds, compared to 2014

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Reid Wilson @PoliticsReid
Turnout among 18-29 year olds, compared to 2014 early voting:
- AZ +217%
- FL +131%
- GA +415% (!!!)
- MI +128%
- NV +364%
- TN +767% (!!!)
- TX +448% (!!!)
Data h/t: @targetsmart & @tbonier

The number of voters between the ages of 18 and 29 who have cast ballots early has surpassed turnout levels from the last midterm election in just about every state, according to several sources tracking early vote totals.

In some states, especially those with hot races, the increase in turnout is staggering. In Texas, 332,000 voters under the age of 30 have cast ballots already, up nearly five fold from the 2014 midterms. In Nevada, the 25,000 young voters who have cast a ballot is also five times higher than in the same period four years ago.

Georgia’s young voter turnout is four times higher than it was in 2014. In Arizona, three times as many younger voters are turning up.

“Voters under the age of 30, relative to their ’14 turnout, are outperforming every other group,” said Tom Bonier, a Democratic strategist whose firm TargetSmart tracks the early vote. “It’s not just like a presidential year surge where you’re getting younger voters who only vote in presidentials coming out in a midterm. A lot of these young people are voting in their first election period.”

More than three quarters of a million voters have cast ballots for the first time, TargetSmart’s analysis found. A third of that total comes in Texas alone, where 213,000 first-time voters have already cast ballots.

read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/414098-young-and-new-voters-surge-in-early-voting

[BumRushDaShow]

1. The oldest end of that range

were born in 1989, which was around the time of a mini "boomlet" of births, so there should be quite a few of them around in general -



(from here - http://statchatva.org/2016/07/06/the-u-s-birth-rate-is-near-an-all-time-low-and-that-may-not-be-a-bad-thing/ )

[Hokie]

2. That's funny, the pundits have been claiming the young people were not voting

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I have read and heard that theme repeated over and over. This is very good news.

[Iliyah]

3. True. There have been articles to that falsehood.

Glad to see otherwise!

[tnlurker]

4. Go TN

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