Who supports Rand-ish?

What I expected from the libertarian-ish, hedge fund owner's pet.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/13/1377146/-Who-REALLY-stands-with-Rand-Moneybomb-data-leak-reveals-awkward-demographic-insights?detail=facebook_sf

Who REALLY stands with Rand? Moneybomb data leak reveals awkward demographic insights

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Kentucky senator and presidential candidate Rand Paul’s strategy for winning the Republican nomination hinges, in large measure, on his claim that he alone among all GOP contenders attracts new blood - particularly young voters, women, and people of color - and can thus counter Republicans’ otherwise inevitable demographic slide into irrelevance.

It’s a claim which, at first glance anyway, might seem credible. His avowed “libertarian-ish” positions on NSA-style surveillance, marijuana decriminalization, and foreign military intrigues, to name but a few, are perhaps more in line with Millenials’ sentiments than are those of old-school Republican hawks. But then again, with regard to minorities he is perhaps on shakier ground, where his occasional feel-good campaign talk is more than amply negated by embarrassing revelations regarding neo-Confederate staffers as well as the candidate’s own past words.

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Age: As the graph below illustrates, Paul's grassroots supporters are, on average, very much older than the voting-age population of the U.S. as a whole, and dominated by supporters 55 or older (more than half of all donors in our sample, but only a third of the voting-age U.S. population).

Particularly noteworthy is the near total absence of college-age individuals (18 to 24 years old) from our sample of Paul supporters.

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