Growing population in America’s highly educated enclaves has led to huge gains for the Democratic Party. And it’s changing the electoral map going into 2024.
It just makes zero logical sense to keep pushing way past the point of diminishing returns on trying to get more of the boomer vote at the cost of nearly every other demographic.
And yet that is what the GOP is doing because they know seniors are a dependable block that will go out and vote for them.
Based on your numbers, seniors represent roughly 50M people and when 70% of them vote, that’s 35M people. And a whole hell of a lot of them are Red.
18-44 year olds represent 108M people, but if only about 30% of them vote, then that’s only 32M people. That is less than what the seniors represent at the polls but more importantly, I guarantee you that there are FAR more divisions in that younger group than there are with Seniors. A FAR lower percentage of them vote Blue.
So by the math, what Republicans are doing is the right thing to do simply because young people just don’t vote. Americans are our own worst enemy.
And yet that is what the GOP is doing because they know seniors are a dependable block that will go out and vote for them.
Based on your numbers, seniors represent roughly 50M people and when 70% of them vote, that’s 35M people. And a whole hell of a lot of them are Red.
18-44 year olds represent 108M people, but if only about 30% of them vote, then that’s only 32M people. That is less than what the seniors represent at the polls but more importantly, I guarantee you that there are FAR more divisions in that younger group than there are with Seniors. A FAR lower percentage of them vote Blue.
So by the math, what Republicans are doing is the right thing to do simply because young people just don’t vote. Americans are our own worst enemy.