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    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 10 21:14:14 2022
    WOW. hard to see a bigger secret weapon for Democrats than the youth
    vote (18-29)

    ...but they only turned out ~27% of 18-29 year-olds.

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    https://twitter.com/cyrusbeschloss/status/1590846225489985549

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  • From Michael Trew@21:1/5 to JAB on Fri Nov 11 18:13:50 2022
    On 11/10/2022 22:14, JAB wrote:
    WOW. hard to see a bigger secret weapon for Democrats than the youth
    vote (18-29)

    ...but they only turned out ~27% of 18-29 year-olds.

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    https://twitter.com/cyrusbeschloss/status/1590846225489985549

    Guilty as charged. I didn't bother to look into who to vote for, nor
    did I vote (27). I am registered, and I've voted in most elections in
    which I've been eligible since I turned 18, but I'm really burned-out on politics as of late. Honestly, I just don't care anymore.

    It's just one crappy candidate after another. They are all insane far
    right or far left. All of the obnoxious political ads are for one
    candidate cutting down his opponent, and not why he's a good choice,
    himself. If he touches on his own accomplishments, that's shadowed by
    the focus of the ad on how terrible his opponent is. Thank GOD
    political ads are over now.

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Fri Nov 11 23:25:47 2022
    On 2022-11-11, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:
    WOW. hard to see a bigger secret weapon for Democrats than the youth
    vote (18-29)

    ...but they only turned out ~27% of 18-29 year-olds.

    Graph PIC
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhPSCJ7XwAIX0iX?format=jpg&name=small

    https://twitter.com/cyrusbeschloss/status/1590846225489985549

    Was thinking about this. The Millennials and GenZs are going to change
    the things we argue about for sure.

    To play the devil's advocate for a moment however, North Carolina's
    Madison Cawthorn was born in 1995 and was 26 or 26 years old when he
    took office. And he was a royal piece of shit, Trumpier than Trump. So
    the Millennials are not guaranteed to be free of the kind of shithead politicians the Baby Boomer generation has foisted on us recently.

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to Retrograde on Sat Nov 12 05:34:29 2022
    On Fri, 11 Nov 2022 23:25:47 -0000 (UTC)
    Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    On 2022-11-11, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:
    WOW. hard to see a bigger secret weapon for Democrats than the youth
    vote (18-29)

    ...but they only turned out ~27% of 18-29 year-olds.

    Wonder if they'll start to vote when the politicians start to look like
    someone from their generation, instead of a bunch of decrepit old
    boomers. Pelosi, Schumer, Biden, Trump, McConnell, the lot of them -
    time to make way for a new generation, old folks.

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