And last fall, the young voters of ’08 — by then 32 to 43 — preferred Democratic congressional candidates by just 10 points in Times/Siena polling.
The Financial Times, for instance, wrote that “millennials are shattering the oldest rule in politics” by not moving to the right as they age.
Similarly, the Democratic data firm Catalist found that Democrats essentially haven’t lost ground among millennials and Gen Z over the last decade.
The millennials of 2008 are not the same as those of 2016, for instance: Six additional years of even more heavily Democratic millennials became eligible to vote after the 2008 election, canceling out the slight Republican shift among older millennials.
The shift to the right appears largest among the oldest “young” voters — the older millennials who came of age in a very different political era from today.
Persons:
—, Obama, It’s, Catalist, Democratic millennials
Organizations:
Democratic, Times, Roper, Financial Times
Locations:
Siena, Iraq