'I-told-you-so moment': Young voter advocates urge parties to take them seriously after midterms

Actually its 18 to 29, according to the link in the article: Millions of Youth Cast Ballots, Decide Key 2022 Races | CIRCLE (tufts.edu)

I'd wager the title is actually accurate for once (actual 'youth'), and most of the Dem votes came from the lower end of that 18-29, but the source doesn't specifiy.

 

A very bad idea. I'm not happy about the left embracing it.

 

No, the boomers still rule. If you look at breakdowns by age demographics, the 1st 3 demos vote half as much as the last 2 do.

 

False. Specifically, young Democrats are fighting free speech. They've been at it for years:

Poll: Most Democrats support curtailing free speech | The College Fix

Do 40 percent of young Americans think free speech is dangerous? - The Washington Post

How liberals turned against free speech (nypost.com)

The Majority of Millennials Don’t Believe in Free Speech - Daily Citizen (focusonthefamily.com)

The New Censors: Poll Shows Almost Half of Americans Favor the Government Censoring “Misinformation” – JONATHAN TURLEY

 

In the old days, a surefire way to get a political disappointment is to believe young people will show up and vote like they told the pollsters they would. They rarely did. But mail in ballots seem to make a big difference in the disparity between what pollsters expect and what actually happens. Young people will actually use them, and their busy social, work and school lives are not negatively impacted by filling out the envelope sitting on the table.

I am beginning to be a believer that this demographic just might make a habit out of doing what older Americans have had a habit of doing. It does not hurt that in addition to all the other issues that young people have always had a stake in including issues involving education, the draft/war peace issues, their planet, their very long term survival is now an issue of contention. Waiting to really doing the work of voting, until you are a homeowner with kids, is just not a viable option any more.

 

No young people voting for Democrats is not uncommon but I think part of the trick was to promise them something that Democrats knew they couldn't deliver.

Hey kids vote Democrat will pay off your student loans.

Oh wait where's the money oh yeah we just lied to you.

Yeah and you know those student loans that you have your **** you pay those. We're not doing **** for you thanks for the vote though sucker.

Seems like a good way to make sure they don't vote for Democrats in the next election.

I wonder if pelosi's purposefully trying to sabotage the Democrats. she came out and said yeah Biden knew before he even made the promise that the executive couldn't do that it's the house that approves that sort of thing.

Something these kids with student loans would know if they weren't ripped off.

 

I bet if there was an increase in young people voting for Democrats it was because they lied to them about student loans.

And that's a sure far away to make sure that fewer of them vote for Democrats next time.