Typical MAGAt response: Since the young'uns don't vote for us, let's raise the voting age to 21 or 25 or maybe even 28. Yeah, that'll do the trick.
Sadly for the MAGAts, there's the small problem of the 26th Amendment to the Constitution, which lowered the voting age to 18, during the Vietnam era when people were being drafter and forced to fight (and maybe die) in an unpopular they had no say in.
Younger voters are a terrible fit for the Republican Party since many of them (rightly) don't see any value in the usual anti-this, anti-that tribalist mentality of the GOP. It certainly stirs up a lot of older white folks, but the whippersnappers? No way.
This may or may not be the same speech, but Reagan held a campaign event in Reynolds Coliseum on campus that year, and I and a remarkably small number of protestors marched around outside. I don't remember the exact details but some student rep presented him with a NC State T-Shirt with "#1 Tax Plan Man" on the back. Anyway, I wound up being interviewed by a TV reporter, and pointed out how his trickle-down tax plan was a huge giveaway to the wealthy and corporations that resulted in cutting social programs at a time of massive and rising unemployment when more and more people desperately needed them (or words to that effect ^_^).
Later that night when I got back to my dorm room, my roommate -- who was not a friend, we just got assigned to the same room temporarily -- mentioned he'd seen me on the news and, "You said some cynical things. I'm glad you're moving out." (This guy collected Chick tracts, BTW, completely unironically.)
The kids turned out because the GOP for a few years now has:Doubled down on hating Trans folkTried to cram theocracy down the throat of governmentWent back to hating the gay after taking a whole half year off back in 16 to pretend otherwiseScreamed about children /being the property of their parents/and have gleefully, maliciously, broadcast that they were coming for everyone's civil rights.Among other shit.Good luck, Laura, but for you to appeal to these voters, you are gonna need to drop all that shit up there, and that will lose you your "traditional" base.You're FUCKED.
Thought experiment...just for fun. How do Republicans find a way to attract...much less cater to...young people?1. Tax credits for starting your own internet conservative blog2. Tax credits for not getting an abortion3. Tax credits for joining the Campus Republicans4. Tax credits for having a second job5. Tax credits for buying American made flavored vodka6. Tax credits for posting pictures of your lunch online7. Tax credits for....Fuck Ted Cruz.
Yeah, that methodology is obsolete.
Pollsters need to adapt.
Typical MAGAt response: Since the young'uns don't vote for us, let's raise the voting age to 21 or 25 or maybe even 28. Yeah, that'll do the trick.
Sadly for the MAGAts, there's the small problem of the 26th Amendment to the Constitution, which lowered the voting age to 18, during the Vietnam era when people were being drafter and forced to fight (and maybe die) in an unpopular they had no say in.
Like times a million
Younger voters are a terrible fit for the Republican Party since many of them (rightly) don't see any value in the usual anti-this, anti-that tribalist mentality of the GOP. It certainly stirs up a lot of older white folks, but the whippersnappers? No way.
The proposed 26th Amendment passed the House and Senate in the spring of 1971 and was ratified by the states on July 1, 1971.
51 (FIFTY-ONE) years.
At least, I hope so, even though I can imagine more awfuller.
This may or may not be the same speech, but Reagan held a campaign event in Reynolds Coliseum on campus that year, and I and a remarkably small number of protestors marched around outside. I don't remember the exact details but some student rep presented him with a NC State T-Shirt with "#1 Tax Plan Man" on the back. Anyway, I wound up being interviewed by a TV reporter, and pointed out how his trickle-down tax plan was a huge giveaway to the wealthy and corporations that resulted in cutting social programs at a time of massive and rising unemployment when more and more people desperately needed them (or words to that effect ^_^).
Later that night when I got back to my dorm room, my roommate -- who was not a friend, we just got assigned to the same room temporarily -- mentioned he'd seen me on the news and, "You said some cynical things. I'm glad you're moving out." (This guy collected Chick tracts, BTW, completely unironically.)
Yah, times were different back then.
"...because when you actually stand for something, your base gets excited."Fuck Ted Cruz. But when he's right, he's right. Fuck Ted Cruz.
"... that the kids are now the party base, along with Black voters."And now I'm in the minority...and I'm LOVING IT!!!!!!!!11!!Fuck Ted Cruz.
Headcanon accepted
Just more evidence of the difference between the parties. This is a good thing. Fuck Ted Cruz.
The kids turned out because the GOP for a few years now has:Doubled down on hating Trans folkTried to cram theocracy down the throat of governmentWent back to hating the gay after taking a whole half year off back in 16 to pretend otherwiseScreamed about children /being the property of their parents/and have gleefully, maliciously, broadcast that they were coming for everyone's civil rights.Among other shit.Good luck, Laura, but for you to appeal to these voters, you are gonna need to drop all that shit up there, and that will lose you your "traditional" base.You're FUCKED.
Thought experiment...just for fun. How do Republicans find a way to attract...much less cater to...young people?1. Tax credits for starting your own internet conservative blog2. Tax credits for not getting an abortion3. Tax credits for joining the Campus Republicans4. Tax credits for having a second job5. Tax credits for buying American made flavored vodka6. Tax credits for posting pictures of your lunch online7. Tax credits for....Fuck Ted Cruz.
"Why did the Democrats do better than expected? Because for two years, they've governed as liberals. They've governed as whacked out, lefty nutjobs.
So to Cancun Cruz, responsible, sensible government means you are a lefty nutjob.
I got polled on a cell phone
But these individual people are /different people/ than who were the young people back then