The kids are alright: Gen Z may have kept the Red Wave at bay

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Interesting. She says they are coming for Virginia in the next election to take the Virginia senate. They want to do away with early voting in Virginia and think it is feasible to take Virginia red again. Youngkin signed a bill already modifying Virginia’s mail-in votes where the voter has to provided birthdate and partial SSN. They are already working to remove voting polls away from college campuses in North Carolina because they now control both houses with the defection of the newly elected democrat not republican. Basically she is saying “we can’t beat the democrats in a fair and unencumbered election, so let’s make it extremely difficult for their primary voters to get to the polls.”

Why isn’t it a rule for students to vote (absentee if they must) where their official primary residence is not where their college dorms/apartments are? Especially if they are still considered a dependent on their parents’ taxes.

In the long term, I have to wonder what the post pandemic hybrid/fully virtual work life will do to voting in previously red districts. Blue voters are moving farther out of cities, beyond suburbs even ti exurbs because they simply don't have to commute as much, if af all, and it's nice to have a larger home with an office if you're working from home all the time. Especially if two spouses are working from home. Our family is one of these we need more space with work from home and aren't as wedded to a commute. The next generation may live anywhere depending on the job.

Heck, I work in healthcare and now nurse managers can work from home on administrative duties once a week. This was unheard of pre pandemic.

I see the post pandemic world as tending blue not just because of gen z but because of suburban/exurban drift

[Anonymous]

Good times make soft men. That’s generation Z for you. Bunch of boys who don’t know how to change a tire, but know lotsa pronouns and acronyms. Sad group, outside of the south and rural west.

[Anonymous]

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Interesting. She says they are coming for Virginia in the next election to take the Virginia senate. They want to do away with early voting in Virginia and think it is feasible to take Virginia red again. Youngkin signed a bill already modifying Virginia’s mail-in votes where the voter has to provided birthdate and partial SSN. They are already working to remove voting polls away from college campuses in North Carolina because they now control both houses with the defection of the newly elected democrat not republican. Basically she is saying “we can’t beat the democrats in a fair and unencumbered election, so let’s make it extremely difficult for their primary voters to get to the polls.”

Why isn’t it a rule for students to vote (absentee if they must) where their official primary residence is not where their college dorms/apartments are? Especially if they are still considered a dependent on their parents’ taxes.

In the long term, I have to wonder what the post pandemic hybrid/fully virtual work life will do to voting in previously red districts. Blue voters are moving farther out of cities, beyond suburbs even ti exurbs because they simply don't have to commute as much, if af all, and it's nice to have a larger home with an office if you're working from home all the time. Especially if two spouses are working from home. Our family is one of these we need more space with work from home and aren't as wedded to a commute. The next generation may live anywhere depending on the job.

Heck, I work in healthcare and now nurse managers can work from home on administrative duties once a week. This was unheard of pre pandemic.

I see the post pandemic world as tending blue not just because of gen z but because of suburban/exurban drift

I’m the PP who asked about this. It would seem you’d want college kids from red states/towns to vote absentee in their primary residences to increase blue votes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good times make soft men. That’s generation Z for you. Bunch of boys who don’t know how to change a tire, but know lotsa pronouns and acronyms. Sad group, outside of the south and rural west.

What’s sad is that a person could still believe in all that crap. The world has passed you by.

[Anonymous]

Gen Z is voting in higher turnout than other generations when they were under 30. Abortion rights and climate change have a lot to do with it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/19/gen-z-voters-2024/