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The GOPs lost generation of millennial votersBy Catherine Rampell at the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gops-lost-generation-of-voters/2016/04/28/06f8efe4-0d7d-11e6-8ab8-9ad050f76d7d_story.html?tid=ss_tw-bottom
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The GOP is poised to permanently lose a generation of voters, and not (only) because of its odious and uncommonly disliked presidential front-runner. New survey data suggest that young people have become increasingly averse to just about every plank in todays creaky Republican Party platform.
By now its well known that young Americans are considerably more liberal than the Republican Party on most social issues, particularly gay rights. The GOPs own 2012 election autopsy, which proposed ways to broaden the partys base, emphasized that Republicans must change their tone on social issues that young people see as the civil rights issues of our time.
The latest youth poll from Harvards Institute of Politics, though, indicates that LGBT-related policies arent the only ones on which young people and Republican traditionalists part ways.
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Compared with responses from the past few years, todays 18- to 29-year-olds are more likely to believe that basic health insurance is a right for all people, that basic necessities, such as food and shelter, are a right that government should provide to those unable to afford them and that the government should spend more to reduce poverty.
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guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)and organize, and talk to their representatives, and run for office.......
applegrove
(118,900 posts)have been very happy with Bernie as the Democratic nominee, but you can't rely on the millenials voting, even in the primaries Bernie has been in.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)For many years, the GOP has been pushing the idea that government is somehow the enemy. That destructive meme is everywhere. Is it any wonder that so many people feel that nothing good can be accomplished by participation in elections?
My feeling is that part of the apathy can be explained by this GOP inspired and sourced negativity, and by the fact that the GOP controlled Congress has done nothing for 7 plus years.
SunSeeker
(51,796 posts)jeff47
(26,549 posts)Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go support a free trade deal, chained CPI in Social Security, and ground troops in Syria while celebrating that single payer will never, ever pass.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)and join someone, somewhere, sometime, in a picket line.
litlbilly
(2,227 posts)lamp_shade
(14,851 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)Not as voters--I suspect they will keep the habit of voting for Democrats. But that's ALL they will do. No joining party organizations, canvassing, phonebanking and the like.
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eridani
(51,907 posts)I'd like to see the kids hang around and be active. Apparently you prefer to tell them to go to hell.