How Birth Year Influences Political Views

[Eric the Green]

There has been a lot of research posted in the generations forums over the years on this topic, but it isn't here in this thread. The New York Times published an article this morning on polls showing which age groups favor which candidate, Trump or Biden, and posits that Trump carried the baby boomers in 2016 but has lost them in 2020. But the graph they posted seems in line with how the age groups have voted over time. Besides the older civic generation that S&H called the GIs, who are now virtually gone from the electorate, the core baby boomers have always been the most Democratic-voting bloc older than the new civic generation the Millennials, and the "Jonesers" (younger boomers and older/core Xers like our Classic), who came of age under Reagan, the most conservative. That is true again this year, according to this graph published by the Times today.