Kids, Parents, and Political Realignment

there’s a generational difference between twenty-somethings and thirty-somethings. Someone in his or her late thirties could, for all intents and purposes, be a political product of the Reagan era. Anyone over thirty could well have come of age during a time of Republican Congressional dominance. To the degree that we persist in voting how we started voting, the over-thirty support for McCain could be the result of what happened in the 80s and early 90s. Full Story »