In the most highly contested midterm races, millennials and zoomers turned out in even higher numbers than they did in 2018.
Major policy changes often spur short-term electoral backlashes. This is one reason why the president’s party has often struggled in midterm elections, which frequently follow ambitious legislative sessions. But in 2022, even though a Democrat was in the White House,delivered the year’s most disruptive policy change. Thus, in purple states where abortion policy was a live issue, swing voters in general gave Democrats unusually strong support.in general-election candidates.
The 2022 results were not kind to such wishful thinking. As Catalist’s analysis of voter-file data reveals, millennial and Gen-Z voters collectively comprised 26 percent of the 2022 electorate, up from 23 percent in 2018. This was partly a function of aging. More zoomers were eligible to vote last year than in 2018. But turnout among eligible voters was also a factor.
To this point, Republicans have managed to weather the rise of millennials and zoomers just fine. This is largely because America’s older generations have all shaded to the right since 2012. As a result, the political divide between millennials and zoomers on the one hand, and their elders on the other, has never been more stark:of those voters in the Senate and Electoral College battlegrounds — has enabled the party to win power in excess of its popular support.
But Gen X is also a small generation. And the boomers are growing smaller with each passing year. If Republicans do not reconcile themselves to a more modern set of cultural values , generational churn will eventually make it very difficult for them to compete in national elections.Women were critical to Democratic success.
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