Biden confronts a 'pissed-off generation' of young voters who may be decisive in 2024
Biden confronts a 'pissed-off generation' of young voters who may be decisive in 2024
They stayed home during midterms. If people were as angry as you and I they would vote in every election. I sure do.
“Perhaps the most notable finding with respect to voter turnout is that 2022 turnout rates were nearly as high as the record-setting 2018 midterm turnout rates. Yet unlike the previous midterm elections, the groups with the highest Democratic voting margins—in particular, young people, Black Americans, women, and white female college graduates—did not show greater turnout increases than other groups, and often displayed lower turnout rates than in the 2018 midterms.” brookings.edu/…/new-voter-turnout-data-from-2022-…
The 2022 midterm election results made plain that the predicted “red wave”—in which Republicans were expected to win by huge margins in the House of Representatives and take over the Senate—did not occur. In fact, Democrats gained an additional Senate seat, and while Republicans took control of the House, it was by a modest nine […]