2022 midterm polls

[Eric the Green]

(11-13-2022, 03:41 PM)galaxy Wrote: Two things are worth noting -

This is the first election in which the entire Millennial generation (1982-2002) has been able to vote

and

This election was not a "red wave" because young people turned out and voted D in huge numbers.

(As is usual, most of society cuts the Millennial generation short for some reason and ends it around 1997, which is why "Gen Z" is currently trending on Twitter.)

Every generation seems to have an election in which it appears to suddenly become among the most powerful political forces in the country. I think this might be that election for Millennials.

Someone on Twitter who does election math and statistics has claimed that voters under 30 voted in such high numbers and so disproportionately Democratic that they completely canceled out voters over 65. The first non-Boomer-dominated election in decades.

Excellent analysis Galaxy, and it looks like I was right to predict this after all, despite all the fears of the red wave and my own pessimism about my own prediction.

Still, the Republicans gained just enough to stop most of the Biden agenda the next two years, with staggeringly-horrible Senate votes in Wisconsin and Ohio in favor of idiots Johnson and Vance that keeps pro-filibuster senators Sinema and/or Manchin in power, and an apparent takeover of the House, though not yet called (Republicans lead 212 to 204).

Meet the Press showed a poll Sunday that suggested young people have dragged down Biden's approval rating, but they voted Democratic and favored Sanders and Warren in the poll. So people may have been misled by Biden's low approval rating, a portion of which was young people from his left instead of from his right politically. Such low presidential approval ratings usually spell midterm disaster for the president, but not this time.

Excellent analysis also, Brower.