Given our electoral political situation where the Left seems to own the young (normally thought to be from the effort in capturing our Education system), it may seem that a Conservative party may be past history. Or is that more like Jeanne Shaheen’s no more snow prediction of years ago – completely false?
Emphasis mine reformatted
Millennials Are Not an Exception. They’ve Moved to the Right.
Fifteen years ago, a new generation of young voters propelled Barack Obama to a decisive victory that augured a new era of Democratic dominance. Fifteen years later, those once young voters aren’t so young — and aren’t quite so Democratic. In the 2020 presidential election, voters who were 18 to 29 in 2008 backed Joe Biden by 55 percent to 43 percent, according to our estimates, a margin roughly half that of Mr. Obama’s 12 years earlier.
The exit polls show it even closer, with Mr. Biden winning by just 51-45 among voters who were 18 to 27 in 2008 (exit polls report results among those 30 to 39, not 30 to 41 — the group that was 18 to 29 in 2008).
The question is whether or not this holds merely because of the candidate(s).
Obama was a phenom with charisma (and no shortage of an Alinsky mean streak). Biden is a retread with dementia. And the above sample is a very short time span.
Throw the Nixon/Reagan landslides with the rebounds that happened afterward. I keep thinking it is more of a pendulum process rather than just an aging process. After all, if that old saw (half in the title) held true, why is it that there are so many white-haired Progressives in legislatures?
Policies enacted by one side or another, however, can predicate the elections as well.
Not sure if or how that impacts this short time span.
HT | Powerline