'Is the Surge to the Left Among Young Voters a Trump Blip or the Real Deal?' (Opinion By Thomas B. Edsall, NY Times)
'Two key Democratic constituencies — the young and the religiously unobservant — have substantially increased as a share of the electorate.'
'This shift is striking.'
'In 2012, for example, white evangelicals — a hard-core Republican constituency — made up the same proportion of the electorate as the religiously unaffiliated: agnostics, atheists and the nonreligious. Both groups stood at roughly 19 percent of the population.'
'By 2022, according to the Public Religion Research Institute (better known as P.R.R.I.), the percentage of white evangelicals had fallen to 13.6 percent, while those with little or no interest in religion and more progressive inclinations had surged to 26.8 percent of the population.'
'Defying the adage among practitioners and scholars of politics that voters become more conservative as they age — millennials (those born between 1981 and 1996) and Gen Z (those born in 1997 and afterward) have in fact become decidedly more Democratic over time, according to data compiled by the Cooperative Election Study.' Link is below. Sorry that gifted option is not available.
What is that old saying about old age and treachery beating youth and exuberance. We have more old age and treachery in the Republican Party who have the megaphone, money, and power. Youth give me hope but I sense that not enough understand the peril we are in.
That’s it. Young people are inheriting a broken society. They’re not going to be doing things the way boomers did. They’re paying attention.
'Is the Surge to the Left Among Young Voters a Trump Blip or the Real Deal?' (Opinion By Thomas B. Edsall, NY Times)
'Two key Democratic constituencies — the young and the religiously unobservant — have substantially increased as a share of the electorate.'
'This shift is striking.'
'In 2012, for example, white evangelicals — a hard-core Republican constituency — made up the same proportion of the electorate as the religiously unaffiliated: agnostics, atheists and the nonreligious. Both groups stood at roughly 19 percent of the population.'
'By 2022, according to the Public Religion Research Institute (better known as P.R.R.I.), the percentage of white evangelicals had fallen to 13.6 percent, while those with little or no interest in religion and more progressive inclinations had surged to 26.8 percent of the population.'
'Defying the adage among practitioners and scholars of politics that voters become more conservative as they age — millennials (those born between 1981 and 1996) and Gen Z (those born in 1997 and afterward) have in fact become decidedly more Democratic over time, according to data compiled by the Cooperative Election Study.' Link is below. Sorry that gifted option is not available.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/24/opinion/voting-trends-democrats.html
Never been called “religiously unobservant” before. I can deal with that…
What is that old saying about old age and treachery beating youth and exuberance. We have more old age and treachery in the Republican Party who have the megaphone, money, and power. Youth give me hope but I sense that not enough understand the peril we are in.