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http://tinyurl.com/sbgw9The New York Times has an interesting graphic showing party
affiliation of those who were 20 in a given year. Interesting
cyclical nature. Apparantly the most republican age group right now
is 36...
--joshua
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I'm seeing a very similar pattern in political polling this year.
Pollsters who report political preferences by age (e.g. Survey USA) show
a sharp divide between the 50-64 year old age group and their younger age
groups (18-34, 35-49), with the 50-64 year olds being much more
Democratic. In some polls the differences are statistically different,
despite the large margins of error on the subsamples. SUSA also does a
second birth year based split in which the most reliably Republican age
cohorts are the "Gen X" voters (born 1966-1978) and "Jones" voters (born
1954-1965) while the most reliably Democratic voters are the "Boomers
(born 1942-1953). The youngest "Gen Y" voters (born 1979 or later) don't
consistently trend either way, sometimes being as Republican as Gen X and
sometimes as Democratic as the Boomers, but seem to more often favor the
Democrats than the Republicans.
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