There are an awful lot of prominent Republicans among Gen-X and Millennials. 36-year-old grandmother Lauren Boebert; 41 year old Matt Gaetz; 49 year old MTG. Milo Yiannopoulos is 39. The “Proud Boys” founder is 39. Founder of the Oathkeepers is 57 (just barely Gen-X). College Republicans are a thing.
Their voters are Boomers. The majority of Gen X doesn’t vote at all and the majority that do are Democrat. Millennials vote more often and align left. Zoomers are still to young but appear to be majority left.
This is a pretty big oversimplification. Here’s a Pew research chart on the last few elections by party and age. The age of voters on both parties is high, but note that the difference between the number of younger Republicans isn’t wildly different from the number of younger Democrats. Also note that the percentage over 65 is pretty small
There are an awful lot of prominent Republicans among Gen-X and Millennials. 36-year-old grandmother Lauren Boebert; 41 year old Matt Gaetz; 49 year old MTG. Milo Yiannopoulos is 39. The “Proud Boys” founder is 39. Founder of the Oathkeepers is 57 (just barely Gen-X). College Republicans are a thing.
Their voters are Boomers. The majority of Gen X doesn’t vote at all and the majority that do are Democrat. Millennials vote more often and align left. Zoomers are still to young but appear to be majority left.
This is a pretty big oversimplification. Here’s a Pew research chart on the last few elections by party and age. The age of voters on both parties is high, but note that the difference between the number of younger Republicans isn’t wildly different from the number of younger Democrats. Also note that the percentage over 65 is pretty small
That’s fair. But what demographic votes for someone like boebert? And she barely won her race.