Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Unlock unbeatable offers today. Shop here: https://amzn.to/4cEkqYs 🎁
What's stupid about this is that the youth hardly shows up to vote historically... Historically the youth has always leaned Democrat when asked but it's as people get older they lean Republican, and actually show up to vote. Now there has been a trend leaving both parties, Dems are loosing more support than Republicans (faster pace).
So the point Jake is making is that after voting for Obama twice he now has to prove he is a "mainstream" Republican by constantly proving he is a progressive liberal... When people that outright claim Obama is a great if not the greatest President the US has ever had are the only people agreeing with you consistently on the boards, while everyone critical of Obama to any extent, and all the way to the far right Obama haters, thinks you're a far left liberal... You're prolly a far left liberal.
Jake, no one cares that you call yourself "mainstream." No one cares that anytime they disagree with you that you call them "extreme, reactionary far right nutters..." You sound stupid saying it. But don't let that stop you!
It's not position. The fact is the longer a voter identifies with a party, the less likely he changes. What occurred in 68, 72 and 76 was the dems didn't get the youth vote to any degree. People who are now in their late 50s and older identify with the gop. The Vietnam era was important because the dems began losing the older working class vote.
As for the importance now, we've had two elections where the dems dominated the youth vote ..... and Kerry won it as well. Even in the last election, the gop barely holds the youth vote when you look only at whites. That's not a good longterm trend, esp when the econ was horrible. Incumbants aren't supposed to win..
The question is why is the GOP failing to attract the younger voters. In 12, Obama did better with the 30-44 year old group than he did overall as well.
It can't be economics. the Economy was horrible in 12. The kids looking for jobs didn't vote Obama on that. It's race (including mixed race households), sex (including abortion and access to chemical abortion and gays) and immigration.
That may be. But the gop's not exactly been their friend on loan interest rates. There are younger pols in the gop looking at things like more access to education with less cost.It's not position. The fact is the longer a voter identifies with a party, the less likely he changes. What occurred in 68, 72 and 76 was the dems didn't get the youth vote to any degree. People who are now in their late 50s and older identify with the gop. The Vietnam era was important because the dems began losing the older working class vote.
As for the importance now, we've had two elections where the dems dominated the youth vote ..... and Kerry won it as well. Even in the last election, the gop barely holds the youth vote when you look only at whites. That's not a good longterm trend, esp when the econ was horrible. Incumbants aren't supposed to win..
The question is why is the GOP failing to attract the younger voters. In 12, Obama did better with the 30-44 year old group than he did overall as well.
It can't be economics. the Economy was horrible in 12. The kids looking for jobs didn't vote Obama on that. It's race (including mixed race households), sex (including abortion and access to chemical abortion and gays) and immigration.
How much you wanna bet it very soon becomes economics. You should hear these little Obama voters whining out their asses about no jobs and college debt. When I ask them who they voted for, their heads explode.
That's called hitting a nerve.
As for the importance now, we've had two elections where the dems dominated the youth vote
Even in the last election, the gop barely holds the youth vote when you look only at whites. That's not a good longterm trend, esp when the econ was horrible. Incumbants aren't supposed to win..
Well, that wasn't the case with Reagan ... or Nixon v. McGovernAs for the importance now, we've had two elections where the dems dominated the youth vote
It's not the youth vote, it's the minority youth vote. Youth doesn't trump race, race trumps youth.
Even in the last election, the gop barely holds the youth vote when you look only at whites. That's not a good longterm trend, esp when the econ was horrible. Incumbants aren't supposed to win..
Republicans rarely win the youth vote. Youth is the period of one's life when one does adventurous and stupid things, that's why Democrats capture the youth vote. As people mature, they cast off their youthful idiocy and begin to vote Republican.
Another factor delaying the migration is Republicans is the delay of marriage and family formation. This allows Democrats to keep captured youth for a longer period during the prolonged adolescence.
Well, that wasn't the case with Reagan ... or Nixon v. McGovernAs for the importance now, we've had two elections where the dems dominated the youth vote
It's not the youth vote, it's the minority youth vote. Youth doesn't trump race, race trumps youth.
Even in the last election, the gop barely holds the youth vote when you look only at whites. That's not a good longterm trend, esp when the econ was horrible. Incumbants aren't supposed to win..
Republicans rarely win the youth vote. Youth is the period of one's life when one does adventurous and stupid things, that's why Democrats capture the youth vote. As people mature, they cast off their youthful idiocy and begin to vote Republican.
Another factor delaying the migration is Republicans is the delay of marriage and family formation. This allows Democrats to keep captured youth for a longer period during the prolonged adolescence.
Most of them obviously identify the GOP with the far right's racism, sexism, homophobia, and religious perversions, based on the image below.
They all can vote for the first time in 2016, the year that may be historic if HRC runs and wins.
View attachment 32484
I have been saying for quite some time that 2016 is going to be an historic election year. It won't be because Hillary wins; it will be how she wins. It will be interesting.
We will be a dictatorship. One that silences people for holding any kind of offensive opinion. Fucking whiny fuckers.
What thrills me is that growing independent platform!
Hello generation that THINKS!
Sure they will. It's always easy to take a principled stand when you have no skin in the game. Single Millennials can argue that the Boy Scouts should allow single homosexuals to take young boys camping. Later, when they become parents to young boys they change their mind.The millennials simply won't accept the more conservative GOP actions on race, sex, sexual orientation, etc.
How differently did white youth vote from their minority peer group?
White youths voted more like white older people than they did with minority youth. Looking at Democratic voting, a 7 percentage point delta between white youths and white 45-59 compared to a 30 percentage point delta between white youth and Hispanic youth and a 47 point delta with blacks.
Who is going to argue that youth unites an age-group?
Of all the age groups, white youth had the largest shift from Democrats to Republicans. Nearly 1 in 5 white youth voters in '08 abandoned the Democrats and shifted their vote to Republicans. Losing 20% of a demographic over 4 years is brutal.
What's stupid about this is that the youth hardly shows up to vote historically... Historically the youth has always leaned Democrat when asked but it's as people get older they lean Republican, and actually show up to vote. Now there has been a trend leaving both parties, Dems are loosing more support than Republicans (faster pace).
So the point Jake is making is that after voting for Obama twice he now has to prove he is a "mainstream" Republican by constantly proving he is a progressive liberal... When people that outright claim Obama is a great if not the greatest President the US has ever had are the only people agreeing with you consistently on the boards, while everyone critical of Obama to any extent, and all the way to the far right Obama haters, thinks you're a far left liberal... You're prolly a far left liberal.
Jake, no one cares that you call yourself "mainstream." No one cares that anytime they disagree with you that you call them "extreme, reactionary far right nutters..." You sound stupid saying it. But don't let that stop you!
LOL. Agree.
Also agree that Jakey incapable of handling disagreement without calling people who disagree far right nutters.
We should do a chart on that. Better yet let's do a Venn Diagram.
The two circles would almost completely overlap.
The millennials simply won't accept the more conservative GOP actions on race, sex, sexual orientation, etc.
What thrills me is that growing independent platform!
Hello generation that THINKS!
Millennials give about 1/3 of their voting preference to neither parties.
It's funny how he's telling me what to think and how to act.The millennials simply won't accept the more conservative GOP actions on race, sex, sexual orientation, etc.
Jake, you are an older man. How do you know what millennials want?
It's funny how he's telling me what to think and how to act.The millennials simply won't accept the more conservative GOP actions on race, sex, sexual orientation, etc.
Jake, you are an older man. How do you know what millennials want?
