Young people continue to be the strongest proponents of same-sex marriage. And as public support for same-sex marriage continues to grow, the gap between young and old is nowhere more striking than within the Republican coalition. Today, 61% of Republicans and Republican leaners under 30 favor same-sex marriage while just […] Read more »
Republicans have another major demographic issue on their hands
Everyone knows by now that Republicans have a major demographic problem: The party continues to struggle to attract non-white voters even as that segment of the electorate keeps growing. But, a new study by the Pew Research Center on millennials — defined as those between the ages of 18 and […] Read more »
Millennials in Adulthood: Detached from Institutions, Networked with Friends
The Millennial generation is forging a distinctive path into adulthood. Now ranging in age from 18 to 331, they are relatively unattached to organized politics and religion, linked by social media, burdened by debt, distrustful of people, in no rush to marry— and optimistic about the future. CONT. Pew Read more »
Texas: Looking Ahead and Seeing a Different Mix
The potential of the state’s growing Hispanic population to change the political equation typically dominates the conversation in Texas. But another issue looms almost as large for a Republican Party trying to maintain its statewide control: On social issues, young people are more liberal than the aging Texans they are replacing […] Read more »
Will She or Won’t She?
I argued in a column last week that, despite the conventional wisdom that Hillary Clinton is certain to run for president in 2016, there’s a decent chance—maybe 30 percent—that she won’t. … The vast majority of the more than 4,200 comments that appeared on nationaljournal.com were anti-Clinton and among the […] Read more »
Can young voters break the cycle of polarization?
In recent years, there has been no end to the hair-pulling by political scientists and other commentators about the ideological and partisan conflict that has gripped American politics and government. Is there any way out of this mess? To answer that question, we need to look to the attitudes of […] Read more »