GEN Z will save America....

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Anonymous wrote:Yawn. You are clearly a Gen Z since you don’t remember just a few short years ago the young Bernie Bros were going to propel the progressive agenda into power. Except no one turned up at the polls to vote.

Every election cycle young people like yourself think they are they have some special new plan and momentum. Yet they never mastery in the numbers. But let me guess, “this time it’s different”. We’ll see about that.

Well, Republicans died off in excess numbers during COVID. Also, old people overwhelmingly voted for Trump and 12-13 million will have died by 2024. So maybe this time is different.

The problem is polling never captures the silent majority effectively. You all were shocked Hillary lost.

What they have a hard time detecting are how many potential voters are being swayed to vote against the Dems because of Biden’s inflation, open borders mass migration, fentanyl pouring into the country, out of control crime, people with penises playing sports with people with vaginas, shutting down of schools, etc. It’s going to be a rude awakening next year when you learn you can’t rely on 18-20 year olds, who are still in their mom’s basements smoking weed and playing video games, to vote.

Polling was just about spot on in 2016. The key states that Trump ended up winning were comfortably within the margin of error.

We weren't shocked because the polls showed a landslide for Clinton and systematically excluded MAGAs and Independents who swung toward Trump but were too shy to talk about it to pollsters. That didn't happen. We were shocked because we couldn't believe that there were enough people in a few key swing states that were gullible and/or dumb enough to pull the lever for a conman whose presidency was very obviously going to be a trainwreck. We had more faith in our fellow countrymen. Alas, they did not return the favor.

The rest of your post only resonates with terminally addled Fox News viewers. Those of us living in the real world can see right through the distortion and contrived culture war claptrap. Perhaps after 2024 the GOP will finally understand that it has to excise the cancer that's eating away at the party (and our nation). But, knowing the GOP, they'll probably quadruple down and tell themselves "this time, it'll be different," much to the detriment of the country. Sad.

Nice dissertation.

I just think it is hilarious your strategy is going to be to rely on 18-20 years olds to vote. 😂

Certainly less hilarious and more grounded in reality than crowing endlessly about huge red waves only to have the party out of power win historically few seats in a midterm election.

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Anonymous wrote:It's sort of silly asking Millenials living in DC whether they are getting more conservative as they age. Of course not. Look at where they live. But does it matter in the end? Of course not. DC has 3 measly electoral votes and no representation. It does not matter how they vote.

WE should be looking at trends across the country, which do show a swing towards conservatism with age. And, of note, Hispanic voters more likely to vote R, which is an important trend given the increase in numbers.

While the website is “DC Urban Moms (and Dads),” you should understand this is a public site and many of us - and I’m one of the not getting more conservative Millennials in this thread - don’t live in DC. Where are you posting from, for example?

No matter. Millennials are staying liberal and Gen Z is aging into voting as covid and old age are beginning to reap their harvest of Boomers. The GOP and its voters have done everything they can to keep everything to themselves and to tell everyone younger than they are that it’s because of avocado toast and laziness that they don’t have the same wealth that their parents did at their ages while ignoring the fact that it’s the system the GOP has created. I can’t imagine why Millennials and Gen Z aren’t lining up with gusto to vote for the Republicans.

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Anonymous wrote:It's sort of silly asking Millenials living in DC whether they are getting more conservative as they age. Of course not. Look at where they live. But does it matter in the end? Of course not. DC has 3 measly electoral votes and no representation. It does not matter how they vote.

WE should be looking at trends across the country, which do show a swing towards conservatism with age. And, of note, Hispanic voters more likely to vote R, which is an important trend given the increase in numbers.

Surely you have evidence of this swing?

This trend has been widely reported in national news media. Outlets such as politico and axios have written about Latinos moving to the GOP. Google is your friend.

Did they do that before or after the “red wave”?

These are both center or center left publications. Do you not understand the difference between forward looking forecasts vs historical trends?

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Anonymous wrote:Yawn. You are clearly a Gen Z since you don’t remember just a few short years ago the young Bernie Bros were going to propel the progressive agenda into power. Except no one turned up at the polls to vote.

Every election cycle young people like yourself think they are they have some special new plan and momentum. Yet they never mastery in the numbers. But let me guess, “this time it’s different”. We’ll see about that.

Well, Republicans died off in excess numbers during COVID. Also, old people overwhelmingly voted for Trump and 12-13 million will have died by 2024. So maybe this time is different.

The problem is polling never captures the silent majority effectively. You all were shocked Hillary lost.

What they have a hard time detecting are how many potential voters are being swayed to vote against the Dems because of Biden’s inflation, open borders mass migration, fentanyl pouring into the country, out of control crime, people with penises playing sports with people with vaginas, shutting down of schools, etc. It’s going to be a rude awakening next year when you learn you can’t rely on 18-20 year olds, who are still in their mom’s basements smoking weed and playing video games, to vote.

Polling was just about spot on in 2016. The key states that Trump ended up winning were comfortably within the margin of error.

We weren't shocked because the polls showed a landslide for Clinton and systematically excluded MAGAs and Independents who swung toward Trump but were too shy to talk about it to pollsters. That didn't happen. We were shocked because we couldn't believe that there were enough people in a few key swing states that were gullible and/or dumb enough to pull the lever for a conman whose presidency was very obviously going to be a trainwreck. We had more faith in our fellow countrymen. Alas, they did not return the favor.

The rest of your post only resonates with terminally addled Fox News viewers. Those of us living in the real world can see right through the distortion and contrived culture war claptrap. Perhaps after 2024 the GOP will finally understand that it has to excise the cancer that's eating away at the party (and our nation). But, knowing the GOP, they'll probably quadruple down and tell themselves "this time, it'll be different," much to the detriment of the country. Sad.

Nice dissertation.

I just think it is hilarious your strategy is going to be to rely on 18-20 years olds to vote. 😂

Certainly less hilarious and more grounded in reality than crowing endlessly about huge red waves only to have the party out of power win historically few seats in a midterm election.

They always forget that. It was supposed to be a red wave, it was their year. The media spent months prognosticating on how the Democrats were going to lose it all and why… only for it to be a small fart in a bathtub.

Oh and abortion. Democrats keep outstripping their margins in special elections since the GOP overturned Roe. Look out, Republicans.

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Anonymous wrote:It's sort of silly asking Millenials living in DC whether they are getting more conservative as they age. Of course not. Look at where they live. But does it matter in the end? Of course not. DC has 3 measly electoral votes and no representation. It does not matter how they vote.

WE should be looking at trends across the country, which do show a swing towards conservatism with age. And, of note, Hispanic voters more likely to vote R, which is an important trend given the increase in numbers.

Surely you have evidence of this swing?

Do you not follow polling data? As a hispanic from Texas, I follow the data in Texas closely. Border counties (which are 95%+ hispanic) swung widely for Rs in both 2016 and 2020. Webb, Starr, Hidalgo, etc. swung by double digit margins. This is insane considering all counties went for HRC the prior election cycle by 60-65%. Texas is over 40% Hispanic and growing. Dems thought they could take the state and failed to consider that latino voters were not with them. And FL experienced the same shifts, though it already had a R base with the Cuban population. Now with the influx of VZ and more S American migrants escaping socialist regimes, there is significantly LESS chance that they would vote D when given the opportunity.

Ds have miscalculated the Hispanic vote and made some pretty crazy assumptions about what is largely a conservative, religious group.

"Trump ultimately won 14 of these 28 counties — eight of which he flipped from 2016 — with many more counties than Starr lurching to the right: Maverick County moved 46 points to the right, Zapata County moved 38 points, Webb County moved 28 points and Hidalgo County moved 23 points. Hidalgo, with around 871,000 people, is the most populous county in the border area (edging out El Paso County’s 866,000), which made its shift toward Trump especially impactful in terms of raw vote totals. To be clear, President Biden still won the overall vote across the border and South Texas counties by 17 points, but this was about half the margin Hillary Clinton had in 2016, when she won the region by 33 points." https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-democratic-gains-in-texass-big-metro-areas-could-outweigh-republican-success-in-south-texas/

And this article was wrong in the end thinking D gains in metro areas would move the needle in TX

So, nothing from 2020 to 2022. Noted.

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Anonymous wrote:It's sort of silly asking Millenials living in DC whether they are getting more conservative as they age. Of course not. Look at where they live. But does it matter in the end? Of course not. DC has 3 measly electoral votes and no representation. It does not matter how they vote.

WE should be looking at trends across the country, which do show a swing towards conservatism with age. And, of note, Hispanic voters more likely to vote R, which is an important trend given the increase in numbers.

While the website is “DC Urban Moms (and Dads),” you should understand this is a public site and many of us - and I’m one of the not getting more conservative Millennials in this thread - don’t live in DC. Where are you posting from, for example?

No matter. Millennials are staying liberal and Gen Z is aging into voting as covid and old age are beginning to reap their harvest of Boomers. The GOP and its voters have done everything they can to keep everything to themselves and to tell everyone younger than they are that it’s because of avocado toast and laziness that they don’t have the same wealth that their parents did at their ages while ignoring the fact that it’s the system the GOP has created. I can’t imagine why Millennials and Gen Z aren’t lining up with gusto to vote for the Republicans.

Because you live in DC, you can’t imagine it Gen Z voting Republican. If you were born and raised in rural Georgia, you could imagine it very well. Or do you have zero ability to understand different perspectives?

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Anonymous wrote:GEN Z will save America.

Most of us will be voting for President for first time in November 2024. In 2022, we all showed up and saved you all and Dems kept the Senate, and only lose a few seats in the house, but now we want action. WE want REAL GUN CONTROL. We don't our kids to have go to though the same lockdowns and fears of a school shooting we had too.

We want college loan reforms.
We want living wage and want to buy a house one day.
We know it won't be done with soon, but we want it to be a work in process, meet us halfway please.

We get it; you want socialism. Hard pass.

And this is why Republicans are having a really difficult time making inroads with Millennials and Gen Z. Higher ed reform, minimum wage increases, and housing reform are now "socialism" to braindead GOPers.

+ 1 And Gen Z is educated enough to understand the actual definition of words like socialism. Thank Goodness!

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Anonymous wrote:It's sort of silly asking Millenials living in DC whether they are getting more conservative as they age. Of course not. Look at where they live. But does it matter in the end? Of course not. DC has 3 measly electoral votes and no representation. It does not matter how they vote.

WE should be looking at trends across the country, which do show a swing towards conservatism with age. And, of note, Hispanic voters more likely to vote R, which is an important trend given the increase in numbers.

While the website is “DC Urban Moms (and Dads),” you should understand this is a public site and many of us - and I’m one of the not getting more conservative Millennials in this thread - don’t live in DC. Where are you posting from, for example?

No matter. Millennials are staying liberal and Gen Z is aging into voting as covid and old age are beginning to reap their harvest of Boomers. The GOP and its voters have done everything they can to keep everything to themselves and to tell everyone younger than they are that it’s because of avocado toast and laziness that they don’t have the same wealth that their parents did at their ages while ignoring the fact that it’s the system the GOP has created. I can’t imagine why Millennials and Gen Z aren’t lining up with gusto to vote for the Republicans.

let me guess, you live in Silver Spring? lol. You - like most in metro DC, SF, LA, NYC - don't have your finger on the pulse of most of America. The system that the GOP has created? You do realize that Clinton was president for 8 years, Obama president for another 8, and during that time there were only 3 R presidents - with two being 1 term? It's been a pretty even pissing match. Life is expensive because we're overpopulated, and Millenials/GenZ like to cry that they don't have McMansions because that's what they see on SM. I'm GenX and lived in my fair share of cramped apartments and townhomes. I also paid off my own school loans by going to a cheap school. I have zero sympathy for the generations that refuse to work and want to live like digital nomads because "work-life balance". Take the balance but lose the money. That's how it works.

And yes, trends continue to show that GenX have swung R while Millenials are less likely to be D as they were in years past. The data is there and its not changing just because you don't read it.

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Anonymous wrote:It's sort of silly asking Millenials living in DC whether they are getting more conservative as they age. Of course not. Look at where they live. But does it matter in the end? Of course not. DC has 3 measly electoral votes and no representation. It does not matter how they vote.

WE should be looking at trends across the country, which do show a swing towards conservatism with age. And, of note, Hispanic voters more likely to vote R, which is an important trend given the increase in numbers.

While the website is “DC Urban Moms (and Dads),” you should understand this is a public site and many of us - and I’m one of the not getting more conservative Millennials in this thread - don’t live in DC. Where are you posting from, for example?

No matter. Millennials are staying liberal and Gen Z is aging into voting as covid and old age are beginning to reap their harvest of Boomers. The GOP and its voters have done everything they can to keep everything to themselves and to tell everyone younger than they are that it’s because of avocado toast and laziness that they don’t have the same wealth that their parents did at their ages while ignoring the fact that it’s the system the GOP has created. I can’t imagine why Millennials and Gen Z aren’t lining up with gusto to vote for the Republicans.

let me guess, you live in Silver Spring? lol. You - like most in metro DC, SF, LA, NYC - don't have your finger on the pulse of most of America. The system that the GOP has created? You do realize that Clinton was president for 8 years, Obama president for another 8, and during that time there were only 3 R presidents - with two being 1 term? It's been a pretty even pissing match. Life is expensive because we're overpopulated, and Millenials/GenZ like to cry that they don't have McMansions because that's what they see on SM. I'm GenX and lived in my fair share of cramped apartments and townhomes. I also paid off my own school loans by going to a cheap school. I have zero sympathy for the generations that refuse to work and want to live like digital nomads because "work-life balance". Take the balance but lose the money. That's how it works.

And yes, trends continue to show that GenX have swung R while Millennials are less likely to be D as they were in years past. The data is there and its not changing just because you don't read it.

Except that hasn't happened with Millennials: https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-users-overjoyed-data-finds-011700609.html

Maybe it's 40 years of free market, right wing policies that have exacerbated inequality and pressured the social safety net. Oh, and when was the last time a Republican Administration were good stewards of the economy and abroad? Maybe G HW Bush? That's not in living memory of a lot of young people today. And the Supreme Court keeps pissing them further off with decisions that affect Millennials and subsequent generations the most.

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Anonymous wrote:It's sort of silly asking Millenials living in DC whether they are getting more conservative as they age. Of course not. Look at where they live. But does it matter in the end? Of course not. DC has 3 measly electoral votes and no representation. It does not matter how they vote.

WE should be looking at trends across the country, which do show a swing towards conservatism with age. And, of note, Hispanic voters more likely to vote R, which is an important trend given the increase in numbers.

While the website is “DC Urban Moms (and Dads),” you should understand this is a public site and many of us - and I’m one of the not getting more conservative Millennials in this thread - don’t live in DC. Where are you posting from, for example?

No matter. Millennials are staying liberal and Gen Z is aging into voting as covid and old age are beginning to reap their harvest of Boomers. The GOP and its voters have done everything they can to keep everything to themselves and to tell everyone younger than they are that it’s because of avocado toast and laziness that they don’t have the same wealth that their parents did at their ages while ignoring the fact that it’s the system the GOP has created. I can’t imagine why Millennials and Gen Z aren’t lining up with gusto to vote for the Republicans.

let me guess, you live in Silver Spring? lol. You - like most in metro DC, SF, LA, NYC - don't have your finger on the pulse of most of America. The system that the GOP has created? You do realize that Clinton was president for 8 years, Obama president for another 8, and during that time there were only 3 R presidents - with two being 1 term? It's been a pretty even pissing match. Life is expensive because we're overpopulated, and Millenials/GenZ like to cry that they don't have McMansions because that's what they see on SM. I'm GenX and lived in my fair share of cramped apartments and townhomes. I also paid off my own school loans by going to a cheap school. I have zero sympathy for the generations that refuse to work and want to live like digital nomads because "work-life balance". Take the balance but lose the money. That's how it works.

And yes, trends continue to show that GenX have swung R while Millenials are less likely to be D as they were in years past. The data is there and its not changing just because you don't read it.

DP. Do I have my finger on the pulse of Pissant County, Alabama? No; I'll freely concede that. But judging by your post, I have a better read on DC, SF, LA, NYC, etc Millennials and Gen Zers, and there's an order of magnitude (or two) more Millennial and Gen Z voters in DC, SF, LA, and NYC than in the rural "most of America."

And, nobody is disputing that there are more Millennial Rs than there were two decades ago, but what's indisputable is that the rightward shifts for Millennials and Gen Zers are less pronounced than they were for GenX and Boomers in years past. The data is there and not changing because you don't like it. Perhaps you should make more of an effort to get your finger on the pulse to figure out why!

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Anonymous wrote:Yawn. You are clearly a Gen Z since you don’t remember just a few short years ago the young Bernie Bros were going to propel the progressive agenda into power. Except no one turned up at the polls to vote.

Every election cycle young people like yourself think they are they have some special new plan and momentum. Yet they never mastery in the numbers. But let me guess, “this time it’s different”. We’ll see about that.

Well, Republicans died off in excess numbers during COVID. Also, old people overwhelmingly voted for Trump and 12-13 million will have died by 2024. So maybe this time is different.

The problem is polling never captures the silent majority effectively. You all were shocked Hillary lost.

What they have a hard time detecting are how many potential voters are being swayed to vote against the Dems because of Biden’s inflation, open borders mass migration, fentanyl pouring into the country, out of control crime, people with penises playing sports with people with vaginas, shutting down of schools, etc. It’s going to be a rude awakening next year when you learn you can’t rely on 18-20 year olds, who are still in their mom’s basements smoking weed and playing video games, to vote.

Polling was just about spot on in 2016. The key states that Trump ended up winning were comfortably within the margin of error.

We weren't shocked because the polls showed a landslide for Clinton and systematically excluded MAGAs and Independents who swung toward Trump but were too shy to talk about it to pollsters. That didn't happen. We were shocked because we couldn't believe that there were enough people in a few key swing states that were gullible and/or dumb enough to pull the lever for a conman whose presidency was very obviously going to be a trainwreck. We had more faith in our fellow countrymen. Alas, they did not return the favor.

The rest of your post only resonates with terminally addled Fox News viewers. Those of us living in the real world can see right through the distortion and contrived culture war claptrap. Perhaps after 2024 the GOP will finally understand that it has to excise the cancer that's eating away at the party (and our nation). But, knowing the GOP, they'll probably quadruple down and tell themselves "this time, it'll be different," much to the detriment of the country. Sad.

Nice dissertation.

I just think it is hilarious your strategy is going to be to rely on 18-20 years olds to vote. 😂

Certainly less hilarious and more grounded in reality than crowing endlessly about huge red waves only to have the party out of power win historically few seats in a midterm election.

They always forget that. It was supposed to be a red wave, it was their year. The media spent months prognosticating on how the Democrats were going to lose it all and why… only for it to be a small fart in a bathtub.

Oh and abortion. Democrats keep outstripping their margins in special elections since the GOP overturned Roe. Look out, Republicans.

Oh please, Democrats lost huge numbers of voters in very blue areas like NJ when Murphy was running. If that doesn’t set off alarm bells for Dems then nothing ever will, and they’ll be in a world of hurt come elections. People are sick of out of control liberal policies increasing crime everywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:Meh, millennials are a bigger cohort and are turning red

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/upshot/millennials-polling-politics-republicans.html

Those rightward shifts among Millennials are tiny. The question is whether those rightward shifts will overwhelm the effects of Gen Zers reaching voting age. I strongly, strongly doubt that.

Yes, they will, because there are a lot more of them.

There are more Millennials, yes, but... that doesn't matter. What matters is whether the number of Millennials switching to Republicans is greater the number of Democratic Gen Zers reaching voting age. That's what I am doubting.

Millennials aren’t shifting toward Republicans as they age. Your party is so sh!tty that it has broken that paradigm.

https://www.ft.com/content/c361e372-769e-45cd-a063-f5c0a7767cf4

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Anonymous wrote:Yawn. You are clearly a Gen Z since you don’t remember just a few short years ago the young Bernie Bros were going to propel the progressive agenda into power. Except no one turned up at the polls to vote.

Every election cycle young people like yourself think they are they have some special new plan and momentum. Yet they never mastery in the numbers. But let me guess, “this time it’s different”. We’ll see about that.

Well, Republicans died off in excess numbers during COVID. Also, old people overwhelmingly voted for Trump and 12-13 million will have died by 2024. So maybe this time is different.

The problem is polling never captures the silent majority effectively. You all were shocked Hillary lost.

What they have a hard time detecting are how many potential voters are being swayed to vote against the Dems because of Biden’s inflation, open borders mass migration, fentanyl pouring into the country, out of control crime, people with penises playing sports with people with vaginas, shutting down of schools, etc. It’s going to be a rude awakening next year when you learn you can’t rely on 18-20 year olds, who are still in their mom’s basements smoking weed and playing video games, to vote.

Polling was just about spot on in 2016. The key states that Trump ended up winning were comfortably within the margin of error.

We weren't shocked because the polls showed a landslide for Clinton and systematically excluded MAGAs and Independents who swung toward Trump but were too shy to talk about it to pollsters. That didn't happen. We were shocked because we couldn't believe that there were enough people in a few key swing states that were gullible and/or dumb enough to pull the lever for a conman whose presidency was very obviously going to be a trainwreck. We had more faith in our fellow countrymen. Alas, they did not return the favor.

The rest of your post only resonates with terminally addled Fox News viewers. Those of us living in the real world can see right through the distortion and contrived culture war claptrap. Perhaps after 2024 the GOP will finally understand that it has to excise the cancer that's eating away at the party (and our nation). But, knowing the GOP, they'll probably quadruple down and tell themselves "this time, it'll be different," much to the detriment of the country. Sad.

Nice dissertation.

I just think it is hilarious your strategy is going to be to rely on 18-20 years olds to vote. 😂

Certainly less hilarious and more grounded in reality than crowing endlessly about huge red waves only to have the party out of power win historically few seats in a midterm election.

They always forget that. It was supposed to be a red wave, it was their year. The media spent months prognosticating on how the Democrats were going to lose it all and why… only for it to be a small fart in a bathtub.

Oh and abortion. Democrats keep outstripping their margins in special elections since the GOP overturned Roe. Look out, Republicans.

Oh please, Democrats lost huge numbers of voters in very blue areas like NJ when Murphy was running. If that doesn’t set off alarm bells for Dems then nothing ever will, and they’ll be in a world of hurt come elections. People are sick of out of control liberal policies increasing crime everywhere.

That was 2021. Something pretty important happened in 2022 and no one has gotten a chance to vote for President on it yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Meh, millennials are a bigger cohort and are turning red

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/upshot/millennials-polling-politics-republicans.html

Those rightward shifts among Millennials are tiny. The question is whether those rightward shifts will overwhelm the effects of Gen Zers reaching voting age. I strongly, strongly doubt that.

Yes, they will, because there are a lot more of them.

There are more Millennials, yes, but... that doesn't matter. What matters is whether the number of Millennials switching to Republicans is greater the number of Democratic Gen Zers reaching voting age. That's what I am doubting.

Millennials aren’t shifting toward Republicans as they age. Your party is so sh!tty that it has broken that paradigm.

https://www.ft.com/content/c361e372-769e-45cd-a063-f5c0a7767cf4

Buddy, reread my post. You're agreeing with me.

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Anonymous wrote:It's sort of silly asking Millenials living in DC whether they are getting more conservative as they age. Of course not. Look at where they live. But does it matter in the end? Of course not. DC has 3 measly electoral votes and no representation. It does not matter how they vote.

WE should be looking at trends across the country, which do show a swing towards conservatism with age. And, of note, Hispanic voters more likely to vote R, which is an important trend given the increase in numbers.

While the website is “DC Urban Moms (and Dads),” you should understand this is a public site and many of us - and I’m one of the not getting more conservative Millennials in this thread - don’t live in DC. Where are you posting from, for example?

No matter. Millennials are staying liberal and Gen Z is aging into voting as covid and old age are beginning to reap their harvest of Boomers. The GOP and its voters have done everything they can to keep everything to themselves and to tell everyone younger than they are that it’s because of avocado toast and laziness that they don’t have the same wealth that their parents did at their ages while ignoring the fact that it’s the system the GOP has created. I can’t imagine why Millennials and Gen Z aren’t lining up with gusto to vote for the Republicans.

let me guess, you live in Silver Spring? lol. You - like most in metro DC, SF, LA, NYC - don't have your finger on the pulse of most of America. The system that the GOP has created? You do realize that Clinton was president for 8 years, Obama president for another 8, and during that time there were only 3 R presidents - with two being 1 term? It's been a pretty even pissing match. Life is expensive because we're overpopulated, and Millenials/GenZ like to cry that they don't have McMansions because that's what they see on SM. I'm GenX and lived in my fair share of cramped apartments and townhomes. I also paid off my own school loans by going to a cheap school. I have zero sympathy for the generations that refuse to work and want to live like digital nomads because "work-life balance". Take the balance but lose the money. That's how it works.

And yes, trends continue to show that GenX have swung R while Millenials are less likely to be D as they were in years past. The data is there and its not changing just because you don't read it.

DP. Do I have my finger on the pulse of Pissant County, Alabama? No; I'll freely concede that. But judging by your post, I have a better read on DC, SF, LA, NYC, etc Millennials and Gen Zers, and there's an order of magnitude (or two) more Millennial and Gen Z voters in DC, SF, LA, and NYC than in the rural "most of America."

And, nobody is disputing that there are more Millennial Rs than there were two decades ago, but what's indisputable is that the rightward shifts for Millennials and Gen Zers are less pronounced than they were for GenX and Boomers in years past. The data is there and not changing because you don't like it. Perhaps you should make more of an effort to get your finger on the pulse to figure out why!

Ho hum. And Ds seem to forget that these cities don't matter much. With the way that our current electoral system is set up, Pissant County, AL may well have more swing than any of the cities that you listed, which is why the Millennial shift that you conceded above matters so much. Dems want to concentrate in these cities, fine. But the electoral map doesn't favor that. I don't agree with it but here we are. So are millennial in these cities more liberal? Of course, but that's not the nationwide trend. And that shifts elections, particularly with TX and FL poised as the states to gain the most population with GA, NC, SC also gaining in numbers. Your read on DC, SF, LA, and NYC might be irrelevant.