Jason0690
Griffin Kaige
Jason0690
Griffin Kaige
Jason0690
Honestly my opinion of voting age depends on the maturity of the person, granted,
most people under the age of 25 don't seem to vote anyway.
Do you have proof of the bold or are you making an assumption?
Do you not English?
I'd think the "seem to" would be pretty indicative.
Most people base such a statement on
observations, usually gained via the media. But I will take your reply to mean you just decided to make it up without any basis in reality.
Close bruh. It's based on observations I've made in the last two decades of people that are both older, and younger than me. I generally don't immediately accept anything the news broadcasts.
So, it does have a basis in reality, just my reality. Which is highly subjective to each and every person and where they live. Where I live, I don't meet a whole lot of young adults that personally give two ******** about voting or elections because they're more vested in finding their first "real" jobs, their first "real" apartments, or graduating from college in the case of those who took longer degrees.
Are you Hawai'ian? If not, don't call me bruh. Stealing their words to make yourself look cool is quite the opposite.
That said, you could have, I don't know, conducted yourself like an adult instead of like a child and said what you just said now; that it is based on your observations in your area. You could have also avoided this entirely had you said 'Where I live most of the people under 25 don't seem to vote anyway'. The way you generalized it implied you were stating that this is universal, which is why I asked if you had something that supported it. There
are statistics on this, after all. It just takes a half a second Google search to find them.
Quote:
45% of young people age 18-29 voted in 2012, down from 51% in 2008.
In states with sufficient samples, youth turnout in 2012 was highest in Mississippi (68.1%), Wisconsin (58.0%), Minnesota (57.7%) and Iowa (57.1%). Voter turnout in 2012 was lowest in West Virginia (23.6%), Oklahoma (27.1%), Texas (29.6%), and Arkansas (30.4%).
There were differences in the youth vote by gender and marital status. In 2012, 41.1% of single young men turned out, compared to 48.3% of young single females. In 2012, nearly 52.5% of young married females voted, compared to 48.5% of married men.
The youth vote varied greatly by gender and race. Young Black and Hispanic women were the strongest supporters of President Obama.
Although 60% of U.S. Citizens between the ages of 18-29 have enrolled in college, 71% of young voters have attended college, meaning that college-educated young people were overrepresented among young people who voted.
In 2012, young voters 18-29 chose Barack Obama over Mitt Romney, 60% to 37% – a 23 point margin, according to National Exit Polls.
Civicyouth.org
Each bullet has a link to further reading.
Now, that said, as a young person who voted in 2012, at the tender age of 18, I can explain partly why so many young voters preferred Obama over Romney. Obama came across as more personable and more in touch with the average person. Romney came across as a rich a*****e who thought everyone else was beneath him, and that shone through in his 47% gaffe where he mocked a large majority of voters for being below his acceptable level of income. Many young people saw what Obama intended with many of his ideals as good things for our country, whether or not they turned out that way is irrelevant. Allowing young people to remain on their parents insurance until age 26 was a big boon because for many losing that insurance meant not getting medical treatment in emergencies or for their daily needs. Has the man done everything he said he would? No, but that is not solely on him. it is also on the Republican party, a party that set out to make it nearly impossible for him to accomplish anything. That is their own words, they would fight from day one to keep him from accomplishing things because they are too bitter to put politics aside and give a damn about the country and their constituents. This is abundantly clear in the red states that decided to say screw their constituents, they refused to take federal money to expand medicaid to
help those in need. There are republicans running for high offices who are running on the platform of repealing all of the Affordable Care Act, thus taking medical care away from hundreds of thousands of their own constituents. As long as they are not personally affected by it they do not care who they hurt, as long as they can stick it to the Democrats. That's not to say the Dems don't have their own agendas but more often than not they're willing to sit and talk while Republicans are not. At leas that has been my observation from following various political issues over the last few years.
