In my recent blogpost on the politics of the millennial generation, I noted the differences in party identification between older and younger millennials in the Harvard Institute of Politics‘s recent poll of 3,058 millennials. Simply put, older millennials are more Democratic than younger millennials. “So perhaps,” I speculated, “the attitudes of older millennials were shaped by the perceived unsuccess of [George W.] Bush and those of the younger millennials by the perceived unsuccess of Obama.”

I’m not the only one to reach that conclusion. Over at the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog, George Washington University political scientist John Sides, using data helpfully provided by the Harvard IOP folks, reaches a similar conclusion. Sides reports that party identification among millennials age 23 to 29 is 48 or 49 percent Democratic and 28 to 30 percent Republican — a big lead for Democrats.