Millennials Up For Grabs?

[Libertarian Socialist Dem]

I forget but I was reading a study somewhere of white voters (black voters were consistent regardless of generation) that showed a sloping curve from generation to generation. The Greatest Generation tended to lean liberal because they had a memory of the great depression and FDR but then the Silents too young to remember that leaned conservative, older Boomers (born pre 53) obviously leaned liberal whereas the younger ones were more conservative Generation X more so before Millenials born in the 80s and early 90s were more liberal. I think that if that trend continues you might see some of the younger ones starting to lean libertarian-conservative again.

I know that when I was in high school the popular anti-establishment sentiment was associated with hating Bush and the neocons and a rebellious kid back then would naturally have leaned left yet I feel that today with Obama in the White House, that same type of kid pissed off about big brother among other things that same kid would be more likely to lean towards being a Paulite and those are the types that will vote in the GOP primaries for Rand Paul in 2016.

Could have been the "Pew Research Study of Voters by Generation"(not that exact title maybe but...) and what President the select group of voters grew up under(went to HS during that presidents tenure) and how they voted  in future Presidential Elections.

Yeah I believe that this was it: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/08/upshot/how-the-year-you-were-born-influences-your-politics.html?_r=0&abt=0002&abg=1

[hangfan91]

I definitely do not think the millennial vote is up for grabs. Being a millennial myself I would say the vast majority of my cohorts (ok maybe 60%) do not care at all about politics and when they do vote they do so because it's "cool" or "hip" as the media makes it out to be and they usually go for the candidate the media frames the best (like Obama in 2008/2012). As of now I think a good 60% of us need to read up more on politics and less on Hollywood.

The other 30-40% I'd say is split between 80-90% being left-leaning and 10-20% being right-leaning (and I mean really moderate. I'd confidently say homophobia and opposition to same-sex marriage/racism will probably be dead in 10-20 years when my generation takes over).

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

I definitely do not think the millennial vote is up for grabs. Being a millennial myself I would say the vast majority of my cohorts (ok maybe 60%) do not care at all about politics and when they do vote they do so because it's "cool" or "hip" as the media makes it out to be and they usually go for the candidate the media frames the best (like Obama in 2008/2012). As of now I think a good 60% of us need to read up more on politics and less on Hollywood.

The other 30-40% I'd say is split between 80-90% being left-leaning and 10-20% being right-leaning (and I mean really moderate. I'd confidently say homophobia and opposition to same-sex marriage/racism will probably be dead in 10-20 years when my generation takes over).

There's more right leaning millennials than you think (myself included)