The Washington Examiner’s Jim Antle has written a comprehensive piece about the Democrats’ war on youth. Antle notes that politicians and pundits on the right have been pointing out ways in which Democrats’ policies hurt young people.
Marco Rubio, meanwhile, has talked about the need for generational change. “The world is different than it was five years ago, not to mention 50 or 60 years ago,” when programs such as Medicare and Social Security were designed, he said in Iowa.
Antle also notes the ages of leaders of each parties, and that Republican leaders from Rubio to Speaker Paul Ryan are substantially younger than their Democratic counterparts.
Furthermore, Democrats’ advantage with youth vote seems to be slipping, and their advantage might be attributable to factors other than age.
Some of the generation gap appears attributable to factors other than age. The Harvard poll found that 87 percent of young African-Americans and 68 percent of young Hispanics wanted a Democratic president, while whites in this age group picked a Republican by 53-31 percent, though it’s worth noting that younger voter are also less likely to be white. Obama carried young white voters 54-44 percent in 2008 and lost them 44-51 percent in 2012.
Antle breaks down how different issues, including entitlements, Obamacare, and Democrats’ economic policies, adversely effect young people, and how these issues poll with young people.
Read the whole thing here.
