Guess who didn't vote.....again

[brooklynite]

AGE OF VOTERS

18-29: 9% (down 5% from 2016)

(Catalist)
https://medium.com/@yghitza_48326/what-happened-last-tuesday-part-1-who-actually-voted-471b8a95c14e

[OnDoutside]

1. How does it stand against a more comparable 2014 ?

[oberliner]

4. 10 points higher than 2014

An estimated 31% of eligible people ages 18 to 29 voted in the 2018 midterms, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE). This exceeds participation from the same age group in the 2014 midterms by about 10 percentage points but is still far below the number that voted in the 2016 presidential election, when 51% of eligible millennial voters cast a ballot.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/2018-midterms-youth-voter-turnout-still-room-for-growth

[OnDoutside]

14. Thanks, that's a positive I would hope will bounce into 2020.

[BannonsLiver]

23. Thanks

I knew the op was cherrypicking.

[Loki Liesmith]

2. Don't compare against 2016

[brooklynite]

13. Except that 65 and up increased by 7%

[dewsgirl]

3. It is a lot compared to the 2014 midterms.

[oberliner]

5. Up by 10 points from 2014

[Demovictory9]

6. I don't understand it. I remember voting at age 18.. it was a right of passage

I didn't talk to other 18 years about it... so maybe I was the only one of my peers to vote.

[OnDoutside]

15. Kids have so much choice for their time now, politics needs to change to find ways of engaging with

them. My 12 year old is awoke to politics (mea culpa), but is one of about two or three in his class of 28. If anything they copy what they hear from their parents.

[Mariana]

18. You may have been. Most of my peers didn't bother. nt.

[Demit]

7. Also, keep in mind that that piece was written Nov 9. All votes haven't been counted yet, even now.

And, comparing midterm elections (2018 with 2014), the piece says

"But we see an increase in youth turnout (ages 18–29), from 8 to 9% of the electorate. Looking at all voters under the age of 40, the increase is from 19 to 22%."

Here's the actual clickable link: https://medium.com/@yghitza_48326/what-happened-last-tuesday-part-1-who-actually-voted-471b8a95c14e

ETA: Damn. I copied the URL and it still won't work. Oh well.

[blogslut]

10. Remove the @ character

I don't know why Medium insists on formatting page links that way. I'm sure they thinks it's edgy but it's just irritating.

[Demit]

26. Thanks!

[former9thward]

11. The percentage is based on exit polling.

Counting the votes has nothing to do with it. There is no age marked on a ballot.

[Demit]

25. Oh jeez you're right, thanks.

[Buckeyeblue]

8. During 2016 I pleaded with an 18 year old to vote

He was/is a smart kid. Gay, bi-racial, he couldn't get passed the fact that Hillary had lied (Although he couldn't tell me specifically about what). Then he fell back to the old position of there is no difference between the two parties. I explained the supreme court situation, gay rights, reproductive rights, workers rights. But he wasn't getting it.

Anyway, I suspect a lot of people in that age group feel that way. I'm not sure what their collective wake up call is...

[The Genealogist]

12. I don't know if there will be one but maybe...

When Trump has finally landed us in a financial mess worse than the Great Recession and they are in dire straights. Perhaps if he lands us in a war because he didn't like like the way some world leader looked at him, and they get drafted in large numbers to fight his pissing match for him. Bar something on that scale, I don't see anything that will wake them up as a group. We just have to work on the young folk as individuals and make them see why voting sometimes for people who dont always tilt their pinball machine is still important.

[llmart]

16. Institute the draft...

and then see how many of them start voting. A lot of them probably don't even know that for my generation you couldn't even vote until you were 21 AND we fought to lower that to 18 because of the fact that you could go die for your country but not even vote.

[The Genealogist]

17. That wouldmwake them up, yes.

[Vinca]

9. I heard one of these brilliant, young, potential voters say he wasn't going to vote because

"they don't represent me." Guess he doesn't understand irony either.

[EllieBC]

33. Clearly the GOP represents him?

They’ll get it when they turn 30. Sadly they are throwing everyone under the bus until then.

[onethatcares]

19. I thought you were going to say

"Don the con".

Did he roll back to NY and pull a handle or fill in the dots?

Or did it rain on election day in his borough?

[BumRushDaShow]

20. Did the President vote this year?

Usually they show prominent pictures of them casting their ballots.

[brooklynite]

21. In fairness, they only show the President voting in Presidential Elections...

...at other times, they generally vote absentee.

[BumRushDaShow]

22. Not quite

http://time.com/3525056/obama-votes-2014-midtern-elections/

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/06/us/the-2002-elections-the-president-bush-votes-then-makes-phone-calls-to-winners.html

Because when they do vote, it is a production.

[Kaleva]

24. 31 percent of eligible voters ages 18 to 29 turned out to vote this year!

"Youth, Latino mobilization paid off in the midterms. Now groups gear up for 2020.

They estimated that 31 percent of eligible young voters ages 18 to 29 turned out to vote this year, better than the past seven midterms. It's particularly noticeable considering that 2014 had the lowest youth turnout rate."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/youth-latino-mobilization-paid-midterms-now-groups-gear-2020-n934516?cid=public-rss_20181112

"
2018 Election
Young People Dramatically Increase their Turnout to 31%, Shape 2018 Midterm Elections

CIRCLE is estimating today that roughly 31% of youth (ages 18-29) turned out to vote in the 2018 midterms, an extraordinary increase over our estimate in 2014, when our day-after exit poll calculation suggested that 21% of eligible young voters went to the polls. We estimate that this is by far the highest level of participation among youth in the past quarter century—the last seven midterm elections during which we’ve been using this same calculation method. The 31% turnout estimate represents millions more young people casting votes in yesterday’s election, compared to who voted in 2014 according to our day-after estimate."

https://civicyouth.org/young-people-dramatically-increase-their-turnout-31-percent-shape-2018-midterm-elections/

[Hoyt]

27. Think it was more than that. But, a lot of youngsters are pretty red, at least where I live.

Haven't dumped their ignorant white wing parent's views yet.

[lunasun]

30. Nationwide more white millennial voted for trump than HRC

With it being popular they may not dump ever just pass those views along to a generation

[Hoyt]

32. It is sad. I do not believe young people are as liberal/progressive as few generations ago.

Maybe trump will change that, I sure hope so.

[krawhitham]

28. Midterms Saw Historic Turnout by Young Voters

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/08/midterms_saw_historic_turnout_by_young_voters__138591.html

Voters under 30 (estimated share of 13 percent of electorate) were credited by NBC Newsanalysts as one of the key groups that led to a Democratic takeover of the House

.......

While exit polls have proven to be imprecise measures of vote share, we have relied on the Census Population Survey (and the Census Weight for Vote Overreport Bias Correction) to estimate youth share of the U.S. electorate. In the last three elections, CPS has reported that the share of voters under 30 was:

7 percent in the 2016 presidential election
10 percent in the 2014 midterm, and
3 percent in the 2010 midtermelection.

According to the CPS, the youth share had not exceeded 11.3 percent since 1994 when it reached 12.2 percent.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/08/midterms_saw_historic_turnout_by_young_voters__138591.html

[lunasun]

29. Different places different folks

Chicago 2018 it includes the upper end of those years crosses over to include 25

Tuesday evening, the 25-34 age group had cast the largest number of votes — about 162,000 — according to the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. The 55-64 age group was running second, with some 142,000 votes.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/chicago-millennials-voter-turnout-baby-boomer-pritzker-amara-enyia-chance-rapper-kanye-west/

[secondwind]

31. My 19 yr old granddaughter voted by ballot! Teach your children well ...........