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The 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 << 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. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
