http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1497/democrats-edge-among-millennials-slips
This link will put you in touch with the recent Pew Center poll on the state of partisan identification by generation. Millenials, born after 1980, have come back to the field a little during 2009, but they still are the most heavily Democratic cohort among the five generations currently comprising the American electorate: the Greatest Generation, The Silent Generation, The Boomers, GenX, and Millenials. That they favor the Democrats over Republicans even after slipping since the Obama election is both good and bad news for 2010. The good news is that this is a generation that is predisposed to view government in positive terms; the bad news, of course, is that the youngest cohort in the electorate is notorious for not turning out in midterm elections.
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Well I guess the liberal indoctrination in our public schools is working! hahaha.
ReplyDeleteI can see how the Bush Administration would have scared a lot of young people away from identifying as Republicans, it will be interesting to see if Obama ends up doing the same for Democrats. Frankly, there hasn't been much to be excited about from either party in a long time (really the entire lifetime of the Millenial generation). The initial optimism of Obama's election and promise of change appears to be wearing off fast, and could lead to even more cynicism than before about real change.
That cynicism could be harnessed to start to provide real change or create a generation that is politically apathetic..if voting is any measure of that, the latter seems to be more likely.
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