According to NBC exit polling yesterday, 37% of the voters casting ballots were age 60 or older; 12% were age 30 or younger.
Guess which groups skew more Republican or Democratic?
There are a variety of reasons why the election yesterday went as it did ("Forget it, Jake — it's Mid-Terms"), but this difference was certainly part of the equation.
A reasonable set of questions would be why each of those groups felt motivated (or demotivated) to vote (leaving aside states that have made it more difficult for college students, part of that Millennial group, to vote). Granted, that Under-30 vote was no worse than the Mid-Term numbers in '06 or '10, but the 60+ cohort has been making up more of the overall voting population. One wonders why.
If millennials had voted, last night would have looked very different.
Young voters say they want to elect Democrats—but that doesn’t matter when they don’t show up at the polls.
