How did Gore do so well with older voters but so poorly with younger voters?
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« on: September 19, 2012, 09:47:57 AM »

Exit polls showed Gore only winning 18-29 year olds 48-46 but also beating Bush 50-47 with 65+|voters.
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« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2012, 10:26:24 AM »

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« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2012, 02:10:44 PM »



More specifically the video game stuff coupled with Tipper Gore's stuff turned off a lot of 18-29 year old males.
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« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2012, 03:30:04 PM »

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« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2012, 07:38:18 PM »

Seniors in 2000 were a different batch. A lot of over-65's still remembered the New Deal and WWII.
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« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2012, 07:54:07 PM »

Up until fairly recently, weren't middle aged voters the most Republican, rather than olds?
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« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2012, 11:47:21 AM »

Up until fairly recently, weren't middle aged voters the most Republican, rather than olds?


I believe so. And Generation X is more Republican than the baby boomers, I believe.
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« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2012, 03:44:56 PM »

Social security was a big issue in 2000. Al Gore wanted to put some of the money from the surplus into a social security "lockbox" to keep the program solvent for another few decades. Bush wanted to partially privatize it.
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