I voted GOP at that age. Looks like you are I are outliers. I slightly more than you. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/706889 Consistent with previous research but contrary to folk wisdom, our results indicate that political attitudes are remarkably stable over the long term. In contrast to previous research, however, we also find support for folk wisdom: on those occasions when political attitudes do shift across the life span, liberals are more likely to become conservatives than conservatives are to become liberals, suggesting that folk wisdom has some empirical basis even as it overstates the degree of change.
I saw some people in here attempting to call this a victory for Republicans earlier. The House looks like, although it's still uncertain, it will be controlled by the Republicans with a very thin margin. The Democrats have taken the Senate and might even have gained there depending on Georgia's outcome. At the very best it's a pyrrhic victory for the Republicans.
Now Georgian Rs will have to ask themselves if they really want to send serial aborter Herschel Walker to the Senate to represent them … now that control of the Senate is no longer in question. Who am I fooling? The Rs have no shame, no moral compass.
Lol no this is an unmitigated disaster Inflation is outrageous and Biden has low approval and team R turned that into nothing Hahahahahahaha
Pretty remarkable considering all of the wind the GOP had its back. Now comes the part where the GOP establishment, once again, tries to kick Trump to the curb. There are going to be a lot of Republicans who pretend that they were innocent during their devil's bargain with him and I don't intend to ever forgive them for unleashing him on the world.
Biden was right. He said democracy was on the ballot and Republicans and Democratic consultants as well, said he was wrong to make that an issue. The experts said that the abortion issue was played out, but the experts were wrong. People said that no independents were watching the Jan 6th hearings or concerned about preserving democracy and those people were wrong. Folks believed issues like climate change, student loan reduction, LGBTQ issues, and gun control weren't winning issues because the people that care about those issues don't vote. But young voters showed up and made sure they had a say. Biden was on the right side of all of these issues. His approval rating has been horrible. Biden isn't popular. But he is smart and understands the issues. He has shown that he has a better grasp on the issues more than most other politicians.
Whelp the Fox and conservative news media need to step it up on fear mongering to whip more republicans to vote for the next election cycle. Imagine gerry mandering, inflation and an unpopular president yet still unable to retake the senate and have a large congress majority. Hype up red wave that might end up being a red puddle Need to pray more to the orange cheetos or convert to Desantis. picks a side republicans
Given how most men who are 35 to 50 on this site From Texas grew up with who won elections back then in those formative years as voters, I would say it’s safe to assume much more people grew up the opposite of @Astrodome where their first few elections were later years of Clinton where he lost congress because of the GOP surge, and the Bush years. The data shows that many here likely grew up voting GOP and then a good deal of them changed in 2008 like myself. I actually voted Kerry in 04 but I still identified as conservative. Just anti war.
