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Title: How did Gore do so well with older voters but so poorly with younger voters? Post by: LiberalJunkie 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.
Title: Re: How did Gore do so well with older voters but so poorly with younger voters? Post by: I spent the winter writing songs about getting better on September 19, 2012, 10:26:24 AM ()
Title: Re: How did Gore do so well with older voters but so poorly with younger voters? Post by: phk 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. Title: Re: How did Gore do so well with older voters but so poorly with younger voters? Post by: Sasquatch on September 19, 2012, 03:30:04 PM ()
Title: Re: How did Gore do so well with older voters but so poorly with younger voters? Post by: Snowstalker Mk. II 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.
Title: Re: How did Gore do so well with older voters but so poorly with younger voters? Post by: Mr. Morden on September 19, 2012, 07:54:07 PM Up until fairly recently, weren't middle aged voters the most Republican, rather than olds?
Title: Re: How did Gore do so well with older voters but so poorly with younger voters? Post by: Snowstalker Mk. II 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. Title: Re: How did Gore do so well with older voters but so poorly with younger voters? Post by: Lief 🗽 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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