Yep. Sad. This election was for a judge, not for a legislature. The winner ran on how she would decide specific cases. The voters and judges see the judicial branch as a super-legislature. Ugh.
If the Judiciary can not provide a check and balance on an out of control Legislature, who exactly does that responsibility fall to? The WI Legislature is widely recognized as the most unrepresentative, massively gerrymandered Legislative body in the country,and Kelly was up to his eyeballs in the fake electors scheme,meant to deprive Wisconsin voters who voted Dem of their majority status and flip the election to the losing candidate...
The voting habits of young people haven’t changed materially in the last decade as far as political affiliation. What has changed is their turnout rate, it’s much higher.
Social media has been an effective tool for progressives to convince young people of nonsense like “W candidate wants to put women who receive an abortion in prison” “X candidate supports jim crow racism”, “Y candidate won’t let people say the word gay”, “Z candidate would rather protect AR-15’s than children’s lives”.
And who uses social media most? The young and ignorant of course.
Progressives have successfully been able to send more young people to the polls with mischaracterized, incomplete and blatantly false information in mind.
Kudos on your success.
Well you're half right, as from 2014-2018 the youth vote turnout went from 18% to 36%, and it was exponentially higher in 2022...
But you're decidedly worng about the political affiliation.
"In 2012, a presidential election year, 60 percent of voters 18-29 backed the Democratic candidate for the House, and 38 percent backed the Republican candidate, a gap of 22 points. In the midterm years of 2014 and 2010, the percentages for the Democrat were 54 percent and 55 percent, respectively, while the Republican candidate won 43 percent and 42 percent in 2014 and 2010, respectively. The exit polls show young Republican voters, like young Democratic voters, also turn out in lower numbers during midterm years, but the drop off is less dramatic."
This is from a post election Nov 2014 analysis, which adds...
Specifically, voters ages 18-29 in 2014 were less likely to self-identify as Democrats than in either 2012 or in 2010. According to exit polls, 37 percent of young voters considered themselves Democrats, down from 44 percent in 2012. At the same time, the percentage of young voters who identified as Republican inched up from 26 percent in 2012 to 31 percent this year. Those who identified as independent also moved up from 30 percent in 2012 to 33 percent in 2014."
Was there anything unique about the young voters who cast a ballot in the midterm elections this year?
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So I wonder what happened from 2014,when the youth vote was slightly pro-Dem to 2022? Just can't quite put my finger on it, what could it be?
You want to blame Social media and false mischaracterization of GOP positions...
"Social media has been an effective tool for progressives to convince young people of
nonsense like “W candidate wants to put women who receive an abortion in prison” “X candidate supports jim crow racism”, “Y candidate won’t let people say the word gay”, “Z candidate would rather protect AR-15’s than children’s lives”.
I submit that your use of the term "Nonsense" to describe issues that young people clearly CARE ABOUT is a huge problem, of your (and the GOP in generals) own making. You don't offer anything of value to young people, considering the top issue for young people in the 2022 midterms was abortion access.
Not some namby pamby let's leave it up to the various gerrymandred state Legislatures to rule on as their fiefdom. But rather a RIGHT that folks 18-29 were BORN with, and which a significant number of GOP voices wants to strip away. The people in control of your party are largely members of a cult which worships a deeply unpopular former POTUS who whines like a baby that he was "robbed" and is on the opposite end of every single issue that the majority of voters in that youth demographic care about.
The whole MAGA slogan hearkens back to "the good old days" that a growing number of young people had family members or friends who had family members for whom there was nothing "great" about those days. You don't like diversity,inclusion, equality and uplifting of people from communities that have always been persecuted? Great, but just don't expect to get support and votes from people who place value and importance on those issues...
Yes the turnout rates among Gen Z have increased since 2014. But that would not on it's own be devestating to the GOP if the affiliation hadn't shifted as well. But while the Dems got only 37% support from that age demo in 2014, they got a whopping 79% in 2022.
And what was a common theme of the areas with the highest turnout of youth voters and Dem dominance? The more MAGA the candidate, like a Mastriano/Oz in PA or a Lake/Masters in AZ. the HIGHER the youth turnout in opposition. See any lessons there?
Before the stunning results of this year’s midterm elections, many pundits and analysts expected a “red wave” with overwhelming vote margins for Republican candidates for Congress and other offices…
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