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White millennials voted for

rmrd0000 — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 22:33:44 +0000

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White millennials voted for Trump. Their white parents voted for Trump.

Black and Latino millennials voted for Clinton. Their black and Latino parents voted for Clinton

http://www.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls

And it's now almost 2018 and

artappraiser — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 22:18:52 +0000

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And it's now almost 2018 and more millennials are eligible to vote and more older voters are dead. Just like a lot of strange shit has already happened since the 2016 election, inbetween now and the next presidential election undoubtedly a lot of other strange shit is going to happen that will change whatever political experts advise from looking at 2016 demographics. Kaput. Old news.

I really don't see a whole lot of reason to keep arguing based on what happened in 2016, really I don't. Especially with instant micro targeting getting more and more potent by the day and lots of troll machines undoubtedly starting up to operate just like the Russians did, but from all sides.

It's a brave new world. 2016 is over. I doubt any of the old paradigms will stand nationally.

There may even be spoiler start up parties for anything anyone wants to accomplish. Money is still significant power especially with Citizens United.

Then there's this from yesterday:

The Supreme Court takes up a second gerrymandering case

A Maryland case affords the justices a second opportunity to limit partisan redistricting

My main point, to be clear: older voters who vote according to old paradigms are dying and millennials are taking over. They think differently, they were taught to think differently from their parents. They grew up with the internet and could therefore not be closeted to stay with their parents' predilections. And the Trump presidency is going to have a huge effect on them.

Anyone stop and think why

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 22:11:26 +0000

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Anyone stop and think *why* their numbers are so high?

It really doesn't tell us

ocean-kat — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 22:01:57 +0000

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It really doesn't tell us much to compare black voter 2016 turnout to 08 or 12. There was a surge in black turnout those years as Obama was on the ballot. It's natural we'd see a surge in black turnout in those two presidential elections and a return to more normal patterns of turnout among blacks when Obama couldn't run.

But with Barack Obama on the ballot, the makeup of the 131 million who voted last year was markedly different. While the number of non-Hispanic white voters remained roughly the same, 2 million more blacks, 2 million more Latinos and 600,000 more Asians turned out. Compared with 2004, the voting rate for black, Asian and Hispanic voters increased by about four percentage points. The rate for whites declined by one percentage point.

Black voter turnout in 2016

rmrd0000 — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:39:38 +0000

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Black voter turnout in 2016 was 59.6%

Millennial voter turnout in 2016 was 49.4%

since this thread seems to

artappraiser — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:35:29 +0000

In reply to Where Millennials Come From

since this thread seems to have devolved away from topic into the Dagblog traditional (ad nauseum) themes of Hillaryites vs. Bernistas, racist white working class voters and evil GOP for a reason I can't seem to fathom, I thought I might at least try an attempt to combine that with the topic of the thread, which happens to be about:

THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION IN GENERAL

So I went to Google and I typed in "millenial voters nate silver" just for the heck of it, and these are the first three results I got:

Clinton And Trump Are Losing A Lot Of Young Voters | FiveThirtyEight

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/clinton-and-trump-are-losing-a-lot-...

Aug 19, 2016 - Clinton led Trump 38 percent to 27 percent among 18- to 29-year-olds, with Johnson at 19 percent and Stein at 9 percent, according to Pew. That is, Clinton was winning a smaller share of under-30 voters than she was of voters overall. That's unusual, and normally, I wouldn't pay much attention to such a ...

Young Millennials Love Obama, But Clinton Is ... - FiveThirtyEight

https://fivethirtyeight.com/.../young-millennials-love-obama-but-clinton......

Sep 12, 2016 - Are younger millennials simply more Republican-leaning? It doesn't seem so. In fact, under-25 voters are more likely than any other age group to approve of the job Obama is doing as president. Here's Clinton's lead over Trump and Obama's net approval rating by generation (18-24 are young millennials, ...

Unlike Their Parents, Black Millennials Aren't A Lock ... - FiveThirtyEight

https://fivethirtyeight.com/.../black-millennials-arent-united-behind-cl......

Sep 20, 2016 - Jonathan Allen, 24, knows that he will cast a ballot in the presidential election, but he is a lot less certain about which box he's going to check. After voting for Bernie Sanders in the primary, he's torn between “keeping Trump out of the White House” by voting for Hillary Clinton or choosing Jill Stein, the Green ...

And here's the results of

artappraiser — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:08:27 +0000

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And here's the results of "Millennials Voters Pew":

Millennials match Baby Boomers as share of electorate. Will they vote ...

www.pewresearch.org/.../millennials-match-baby-boomers-as-largest-genera......

May 16, 2016 - As of April 2016, an estimated 69.2 million Millennials (adults ages 18-35 in 2016) were voting-age U.S. citizens – a number almost equal to the 69.7 million Baby Boomers (ages 52-70) in the nation's electorate, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.

Millennials, Gen Xers outvoted Boomers and older generations in ...

www.pewresearch.org/.../millennials-and-gen-xers-outvoted-boomers-and-ol......

Jul 31, 2017 - Baby Boomers and other older Americans are no longer the majority of voters in U.S. presidential elections. Millennials and Generation Xers cast 69.6 million votes in the 2016 general election, a slight majority of the 137.5 million total votes cast, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Census ...

Millennial and Gen X voter turnout increased in 2016…and among ...

www.pewresearch.org/...voter.../ft_17-05-12_voterturnout_millennialnew/

May 17, 2017 - Black voter turnout fell in 2016, even as a record number of Americans cast ballots. Millennial and Gen X voter turnout increased in 2016…and among millennials, black turnout decreased. Millennial and Gen X voter turnout increased in 2016...and among millennials,

I know that I go on and on

rmrd0000 — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 20:23:18 +0000

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I know that I go on and on about this group of voters because they represent a direct threat to me and my family. It seems pretty clear that these folks view whites who do not fall in line as their enemy. They are willing to throw white women who survived sexual assault under the bus. White men like Flake and Corker, who tell the truth about Trump’s behavior, are attacked. These voters are a clear and present danger to the United States because they are willing to ignore Russian infiltration of our government. Why are people coddling these folks?

The Tea Party was born on the

NCD — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 20:13:20 +0000

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The Tea Party was born on the ashes of the 1000 year Republican Reich of GWB, and his administration's war and economic disasters. His voters well knew who had screwed up.

The ignominy of his 8 years of calamity for his white right wing Fox News mob was only compounded geometrically because it was followed by the election of the Kenyan Usurper. Driftglass:

By 2009, like German soldiers after the fall of Berlin, millions of loyal Republican meatbags who had spent most of a decade loudly piss-drunk on Fox News/Hate Radio fake patriotism were sprinting away from the disaster they created as fast as their little legs would carry them, pausing only long enough to burn their Bush/Cheney lawn signs and swear they had never even heard of George W. Bush.

Thanks to the Fabulous, Tea-Baggulous Bush-Off Machine and the unstinting collaboration of the mainstream media, they re-branded themselves as The Tea Party. And everyone but a few, dirty hippies obligingly looked the other way.

Why is there an attempt to

rmrd0000 — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 20:04:23 +0000

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Why is there an attempt to distort things about the white working class. Democrats have 40-45% of white voters nationally. Let’s celebrate those voters and combine them with minority voters to win races. The first order of business is combating voter suppression. Combining that with developing a backbone is important. Protesting the tax plan and health care cuts is part and parcel of fighting.