Democratic voters have split along generational lines in the past two presidential primary cycles. And 2020’s very early front-runner, former vice president Joe Biden, has been criticized for being, well, old. In the limited polling that we have so far, Biden leads the pack of 2020 potential Democratic nominees, a […] Read more »
Trump’s alienation of younger voters is a generational gamble for GOP
The sharp turn against the Republican Party by young people in the 2018 election may be only the overture to an even greater political risk for the GOP in 2020. Both historical voting patterns and underlying demographic trends suggest that the biggest difference in the electorate between this election and […] Read more »
Republicans’ hard-line stance on immigration may alienate millennials for years
… The millennial generation is the most diverse adult generation in U.S. history. Hispanics make up 21 percent of all U.S. millennials. My research shows that this diversity contributes to their more progressive and tolerant attitudes toward immigration, compared with older adults. In my book “The Politics of Millennials,” co-authored […] Read more »
Younger evangelicals look an awful lot like older evangelicals post-2016
In the lead-up to the 2018 midterms, several prominent media accounts reported on the connection between evangelicals and the Republican Party. Given the important role that evangelicals play in the Republican base — they make up about 20 percent of the US population and consistently have given 70 to 80 […] Read more »
The other 2018 midterm wave: A historic 10-point jump in turnout among young people
Nine months after Parkland, students like David Hogg have joined the youth voter wave. AP Photo/John Raoux Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Tufts University Voter turnout among 18 to 29-year-olds in the 2018 midterm elections was 31 percent, according to a preliminary estimate by The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning […] Read more »
Millennials aren’t apathetic, they’re remaking the Democratic Party. Here’s how.
With the November midterms fast approaching, the 2018 cycle has already delivered two major primary upsets on the Democratic side in the House. In New York’s 14th, Joe Crowley, one of the most powerful Democrats in the country and state of New York, was unseated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Then, in […] Read more »