Graph of the Day: US Election Day Age Demographics, 2008 and 2010

Desdemona Despair

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November 4, 2010

Basically, the 65-and-older crowd rode their rascal scooters to polling places while the under-30 crowd couldn’t be bothered:

Only about one in five people under the age of 30 voted in the mid-term elections Tuesday, says a study based on exit polls… Around one million fewer Americans under the age of 30 cast ballots in the 2010 mid-term elections compared to the 2006 vote. [Rawstory]

What’s there to say? You didn’t vote because you’re so disillusioned? Whatevs, right? You might say, What have the Democrats and President Obama done for  me lately. There’s no difference between the GOP and Democrats anyway. Well… enjoy your new GOP-Teaparty House of Representatives. I’m sure they’ll get right on all the things you claim you care about: environment, gay rights, health care, the wars, etc.

Also keep in mind that one of the reasons that your demographic (the youth vote) isn’t as ‘pandered’ to as, say, the 65-and-older crowd is that YOU’RE unreliable. Always. Politicians can’t count on you to show up — as we clearly see above. There’s all this energy expended to GOTV, to beg you to exercise your right to vote and / or fulfill your duty to vote, and what happens? You still don’t show up. But remember: the older crowd, the unhappy crowd, the loudest and most unreasonable crowd always shows up. Always.

So, well done!

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