Voters aged 30-49 favor Bush - Who are these people?

[MikeG]

Can I change my age group please?

I am ashamed to be 46.

[lancdem]

1. I'm 42

I don't know who they are.

[popstalin]

2. Not me! n/t

[DjTj]

3. You can change your age group...

...in 4 years...

...and you can vote Kerry in for a second term.

[bluestateguy]

4. People who don't have to worry about the draft

At least not as much as 18-26 year olds.

[blondeatlast]

26. Sadly, we have children who will. My son is 7 now. nt

[fugue]

5. I'm 39

And most of my friends are the same age. I know only one who is voting for Bush.

[Dulcinea]

27. So am I

I'm a suburban mother of 2 with a minivan, Bush's target demographic, & I can barely stand the sight of him.

I will be thrilled to cast my vote for John Kerry on Nov. 2.

[sandnsea]

6. I'm 46

I don't know who they are either. Families trying to get by who believed Reagan, that's all I can figure.

[cally]

7. Idiot, idiots, idiots

Seriously, they grew up on the same TV I did, the same talk shows, and the relief that we were'nt going to Viet Nam. How can they be so shallow? (I'm 46)

[cosmicvortex20]

40. careful with that

Everyone that disagrees isnt an idiot. They have a different perspective on the world - and just like here, very few people question their reality.

Bias is a hard thing to get past. The Truman Show was a good example of people not questioning their reality.

Im voting Kerry, but I dont accept half the axiomatic "party line" nonsense I see spewed.

[GingerSnaps]

8. Who did they poll?

I didn't get a call and I am in that group.

[cheshire]

9. 4 Morans related to *.

[K8-EEE]

10. NOR ME!

I don't know who these idiots are -- nobody I know!

[K8-EEE]

11. To Old For The Draft & Their Kids Are Too Young For It?

It depresses me that people don't seem to give a fuck about anything but "me and mine" but that is one explanation for it I guess...

[blondeatlast]

28. NO kid is too young for it, but the sad thing is, these dimwits think

that if their kids aren't in the age group now, it won't matter. I have a 7 year old, and the draft bothers me big time.

DIMWITS!

[LiberalAndProud]

12. These are people working 2 jobs to pay the banker. They aren't

home when the pollster calls. Or they're just too damn tired to answer any questions right now. Or they're out on the freeways blogging, or down at campaign headquarters making phone calls or on the street canvassing neighborhoods.

[Fabio]

13. Mostly, they are

evangalicals and people for whom the tax cuts are alluring because they have a ton of overhead (ie young family, mortgage, mid management). that's my guess.

[Gyre]

14. Old yuppies, and less-defined persons gone equally bad.

Bunch of pukes who weren't involved in the Vietnam debaucle, but had a vague awareness of the divisions that war created here. The passions and violence of that time made them quake with fear and they envied those who had the courage to be 'on point'. They as a group opted deliberately for the superficial and safe. Only problem with that was they have a hard time looking in the mirror. * reminds them of themselves. Hence, they support him. Allows them the illusion that they're ok.

Gyre

[liberalmuse]

15. Ashamed to be in this age group (41).

My generation SUCKS. These are the people who were too young to go to Viet Nam and too old to worry about being drafted. I'm sorry, but other than the awesome people at DU in this age group, most of my peers are apathetic and so self-involved that I can't even relate to them.

[blondeatlast]

30. I have to agree with your assessment. Even my husband is 12 years

younger than me; I simply find most men my age terribly self-absorbed (obviously you don't fit the mold).

We've been happily married for 8 years!

[vademocrat]

16. Not me - I'm 46

Some of these folks made lots of $$ in the tech boom of the '90s. Lots of "AOL Millionaires" & other tech wealthy youngish folk who remember the wrong lessons of the 80s - the "me decade"...

[HootieMcBoob]

17. I'm 43

And I favor sending the SOB back to Texas or even better to a federal prison.

[blondeatlast]

31. I'd rather send him to

Fallujah.

[southern democrat]

18. These are people who have job with tenure, probably older children

and they are at the time of their life wwhen they are thinking about retirement and what the future holds. Conservitave polocies are very attractive to people of this age. The bogus security issue resonates with these people. They have made their livings or sort of turned the corner finaically and they are not as concerened about other who have not, either older or younger unless they are personally involved.

As many people get older they devlop spirtualy also and religon plays a bigger part in their lives. These factors make it easy prey for the republicans. Their message is directed to these people.

And as you get older you get lazier and I believe this aids in clouding judgment. When your younger you are striving for answers and you are harder to convince. Older people have wisdom of a lifetime in their minds and they know history. They are not going to be fooled as easily.

[blondeatlast]

32. I've gotten more inspired, more involved, more UPPITY than I've ever been.

Be very careful of generalizations; that's THEIR weakness, we should know better.

[montana500]

19. this age group

is the puffy faced, angry white american male

[blondeatlast]

34. Um, that makes no sense whatsoever, and is insulting to boot.

I'm a lady-chick, by the way.

[lithalle]

20. Not me! I just turned 30 this year!

Pro-Kerry all the way! So is DH who will be 30 in a few months.

[TriMetFan]

21. Boy who are they talking about?

Just between myself,spouse and our siblings and their spouses, thats fourteen of us in that group that are voting for Kerry.

[Warpy]

22. Too young for the 60s

and the upper part of that group was too old for the biggest part of the dotcom bubble. Somebody once wrote an article on people born between 1958-1970 as "Generation Suck."

My condolences. The 60s were a blast (I think).

[Retrograde]

23. and too young for Vietnam

but old enough for the technology (NOT the dotcom) boom of the 80s/90s. Too young for retirement to be a reality

[blondeatlast]

36. Yeah, the 60s were just loads of fun; Vietnam, Watergate, J. Edgar Hoover.

:eyes:

[featherman]

24. This demographic grew up being told Ronald Reagan was

a "great president" by a fawning media. Their standards in this regard are therefore quite low and Bush is acceptable, I guess.

[Warren DeMontague]

35. Bullshit. I spent my college years protesting Reagans asshat-erry.

Demographic generalizations are for shit. The biggest predictor of who is going to vote for Bush is CHURCH ATTENDANCE.

Yet start a thread about people who go to church, and ask "Who are these people"?... And watch your ass get flamed.

Apparently bashing "Gen X" is okay, though. Every few days we get one of these. I'm 35. I don't know anyone who is voting for Bush. If I did, I'd have trouble getting through a civil conversation with them. As far as "Who the fuck are these people", I think that applies to everyone who is voting for this lying, extremist, korsakoff's-addled nincompoop and his criminally inept administration- whether they be 18 or 88.

[blondeatlast]

25. Proud to be 45 and voting for the most important election

I ever hope to see.

[BlueNomad]

29. hahahahha

and all month we have been hearing he allegedly has overwhleming support among 18-29s...hmmm let me see so everyone 18-40 is voting for BUSH....get real people....

[dem4life44]

33. The same ones who think "Security Moms" means that they have to think (m)

only about the likelihood of terrorists killing their children? Honestly, as a woman with 2 kids, I'm much more concerned about health care, education, women's rights, the economy, gay rights, and civil liberties being taken away. And as a woman who fits the "demographics" of security mom status, I'm pissed.

[Carni]

37. OOOPS!

I read this whole thing wrong--never mind!

[NEDem]

38. I'm 36 and ready to fight.

Most of the people I know in this age range are not supporting *. Some of them were, but for a variety of reasons they have changed their minds.

[Pax Argent]

39. 30-49

- Not getting drafted
- Sure Social Security will not pay out to them
- Not likely to need abortions
- At the height of material acquisitiveness; tax aversive
- Concerned for own children (avoidance of "those children")
- Desire to obtain "best education" with no real involvement (vouchers)
- Life slowing down and discovery of faith ("making up for lost time")
- Largely comfortable with jobs with benefits

Republican ideology is tailor made for these people, as long as they don't have a social conscience. I don't believe that it is by chance that this age group coincides with the prime radio advertising demographic. It also neatly explains why talk radio is the success that it is.

[smirkymonkey]

41. No we don't.

I am in that age group and so are most of my friends. Every single one of us hates Bush*.