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> This wouldn't make any real difference to politics because young people don't vote. Not quite. They do not vote on "old people". Why? Anything from simply ag
by digi_owl 10y ago
> This wouldn't make any real difference to politics because young people don't vote.
Not quite. They do not vote on "old people". Why? Anything from simply age to not feeling older people understand their world and situation.
- austincheney 10y agoI have no idea what that means. Statistically young people don't vote. I think its close to around 6% of 18-24 year olds vote in presidential elections with a statistically insignificant amount voting in other elections.
- debaserab2 10y agoI don't know where you got those numbers from. The lowest I can find is in the 30% range for a presidential election. It's a bit disingenuous to write that off completely. http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/demographics http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/demographics
- austincheney 10y agohttp://www.civicyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/CIRCLE_.. http://www.civicyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/CIRCLE_.... Turns out I was wrong. Youngsters aren't 6% of the vote, but closer to about 9%. Still tiny though. The data indicates people who are registered voters are about twice as likely to become a voter after the age of 25.
- ianburrell 10y agoYou are confused about the difference between percentage of youngsters who vote, which is 40%, and the percentage of the total vote that are youngsters, which is 9%. But 18-24 is probably only 10% of the voting population.
- debaserab2 10y agoThat link didn't work for me.