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> This wouldn't make any real difference to politics because young people don't vote.

Not quite. They do not vote on "old people". Why? Anything from simply age to not feeling older people understand their world and situation.




I have no idea what that means. Statistically young people don't vote. I think its close to around 6% of 18-24 year olds vote in presidential elections with a statistically insignificant amount voting in other elections.


I don't know where you got those numbers from. The lowest I can find is in the 30% range for a presidential election. It's a bit disingenuous to write that off completely.

http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/demographics


http://www.civicyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/CIRCLE_....

Turns out I was wrong. Youngsters aren't 6% of the vote, but closer to about 9%. Still tiny though. The data indicates people who are registered voters are about twice as likely to become a voter after the age of 25.


You are confused about the difference between percentage of youngsters who vote, which is 40%, and the percentage of the total vote that are youngsters, which is 9%. But 18-24 is probably only 10% of the voting population.


That link didn't work for me.




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