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It’s not young people not voting, it’s old people not dying

Posted on November 1, 2018 by Brick Wahl

It’s not that young people are voting less, because they aren’t. Indeed they vote more (and less Republican) than their elders did at same age in some elections. Difference is life expectancy, meaning old people now live two voting cycles longer. There’s your Trump margin.

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