Just seemed like weren't interested for awhile. Once the Millennials get fully engaged, the Boomers will be relegated to the dustbin, if they aren't progressive. As a GenX'er I can say that lol.

Please hurry up and get rid of those greedy hypocrites that are leaving this world in ruins for coming generations.

Trump himself and the republican party that most of them voted for will deal the final death blow to the baby boomers real soon.

Older people vote more then younger people.

I have 40 something family members who are far right.

Even the 30 somethings that are republicans.

The older folks in my family are democrats.

Trump has a lot of young people who voted for him.

I lucky enough to have been around a lot real ass kicking democrats growing up.

You might learn something from us.

National holiday on election day
Auto registration
More mail/early voting


It's easy for retired people to vote. If we did the above a lot more young people would vote.

Now they complain about voter issues & Citizens United?
That was Hillary's damn platform.
Geezus

What nonsense "hard to vote."

Poor delicate flowers.

I've been voting for 45 years, and haven't missed a federal, state, or local election yet. And I've done it in four different states. I've never found it in the least bit hard. It takes at most an hour out of my life once every two years. And every time we've moved I've had to go to the DMV to get registered. Not that hard. (My current state just passed an automatic registration law in the House.)

I know it's harder if you're, say, an African American voter in the middle of St. Louis who is forced to stand in line for several hours, or a black person whose voter status is challenged in a Deep South red state.

What have you, or millennials in general, found "hard" about voting? That once every two years you have to get up a half hour early to cast a vote at your local polling place? I'm not being snarky, just very curious.

Yes, the GOP tries to make voting as hard as possible for its political opponents.

Many D leaning districts have long poll lines and long waits. That's not making voting easy. It should be trivially easy to know where to vote and voters should be automatically registered. Why is election day not a national holiday? The current situation disadvantages those who work.

I am a D who has always lived in D-leaning districts. I have never had automatic registration. In fact, it used to be much harder to register. Yet it's not impossible: you take the time to do it. It's a one-time thing. And now most states have early voting with a month-full of days you can go to vote, and you can check everything (registration status, polling place location) and even get sample ballots to look at online.

Why does everything have to be automatic or available with the click of a button or done from home for this generation? (And I don't want to overgeneralize: my children are millennials (though very early ones, closer to Gen X than today's millennials) and they've registered to vote in multiple states and they go to the polls). Why is it not hard at all to go to the gym or a spin class or wait in line at a concert, or go to a crowded bar, but hard to go to a registration center or polling place? I truly don't understand it.

This does not mean I don't want it to be made as easy as possible with the things you suggest. But I'm going to maintain that these are not the real reason that the millennial vote hovers well below 50 percent for presidential elections and around 30 percent for midterms. It's probably nonexistent for local elections. I maintain that it's disinterest. Which is okay: when you're young and don't have much skin in the game, and don't think about schools for your kids and funding issues and haven't had the experience of knowing how the federal government operates or impacts your life or community or nation or world, and you're more into yourself than thinking about the good of the general public, you're not as interested. If and when they age into the work-home-children phase, they'll vote more. Automatic registration and national holidays are not going to change the turnout that substantially. It's about attitudes.

The reason more millennials voted in Britain is because of Brexit: they DID have real skin in the game by losing the ability to study or work throughout the EU freely or partake of other benefits. It was a rebound phenomenon. Just like we had great youth turnout after the Bush administration and its wars and surveillance, etc. Obama benefitted from that. We will benefit from Trump depredations in future elections. And then the impetus will wane again. It's always been like that, always will be.

Hopefully you are correct.

Not only will the millennials have 'skin in the game' after Trump and his party give them 4 years of punishment, so will lots of idiot boomers who actually believed Don the con was gonna help them out!

I am on the left, and always have been.

I am a liberal, not a progressive. I refuse to let the meaning of the word "liberal" to be redefined or ridiculed by anyone, left or right.

My father was a union man.

My younger family members are greedy republicans.

for sure, and most of my friends are still liberal - except a handful of wayward ones!

Perhaps it's simply that we remain friends with those we have the most in common with, similar world views.

They know nothing yet.

That's why the GOP is actively gerrymandering, rigging, and disenfranchising (and has been for years) in order to -- unfairly and unethically -- protect their own power. One can only hope they have even less success than Theresa May.

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And their recent elections.

"That assessment, if accurate, confirms a trend in American and Western European politics toward a radical turn among young voters that could over the next decade further undermine the political center."

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(lack of) turnout is the problem

One of the things that Corbyn ran on was a return to the pre-1997 regime of free college tuition. In 20 years, the "skin-in-the-game" crowd had jumped tuition responsibilities from nothing to a thousand pounds to nine thousand pounds. English students were competing with American students for the debt burden of going to college.

That's just one thing. Right after World War II, a lot of veterans came back, ran for office, got elected, and instituted programs like the GI Bill to send their comrades off to college and get educated. If we freed up our college age folks to earn and learn without saddling them with six figures of debt, well . . . 65 years ago, we got some incredibly innovative new businesses. What would we do in a wired world today?

but am a bit skeptical. I have been to three well educated millennial weddings this spring/summer and all of them included the bride pledging her submission to her groom's "leadership" in their marriage. And these are not Bible belt, Baptist or fundy church weddings. The brides don't seem like doormats and the grooms don't seem like insecure weenies but they sure go full speed into that crap. I live in a well educated suburb of Chicago and see a lot of millennials who are the young angry white men and women who fall in line with the same bullshit. Proud to be Trumpsters.

What you are describing is not going to end. Brides indeed tend to assume their husband's ideology, immediately or eventually. Angry white males are angrier and more simplistic than ever.

It's not an 80/20 trend. We are earning a few percent more than typical among the young. That's meaningful going forward and the reason the registration drives should be in full force right now, while Trump's approval rating is in the tank.

This is all about presidential approval. Newcomer voters are swayed by which party is in power when they turn 18, and whether that president is popular or unpopular. Since Bush was in the approval dumps post Katrina, and Obama was relatively popular for most of his 8 years, and now Trump is at record lows for a fresh president, we have had a 12 year run of favorable terrain. That's extremely meaningful down the road.

Situational influence and long term trends are often obscured by the obvious and now. For example, the 2016 electorate was the most liberal in decades, with 26% self-describing as liberal in the national exit poll. The gap of only 9 points between conservatives (35) and liberals (26) was the lowest margin in the decades I have researched the category. It has gone from 12 to 11 to 10 and now 9. I was stunned at 9. Granted, right now the liberals are concentrated toward the coasts but if the trend continues it will grip one meaningful state after another.

Young voters and especially young single women don't turn out in midterms, which is why our upside there is always very low compared to Republicans in a favorable midterm cycle. Our avalanche might be 25-35 seats while the GOP can double that.

Not the US.

So many of them are convinced that their vote doesn't count in America.