Millennials have emerged as the nation’s largest living generation, yet that demographic shift isn’t reflected in the upper reaches of the Republican-controlled Senate, where the body’s oldest members are the power brokers.
Given that 2/3rds, assuming an even distribution over the 1981-1997 time frame, of them are under the minimum age to serve in the Senate I don’t see why their not being well represented in the Senate would be a surprise.
Millennials, who are Americans born between 1981 and 1997, numbered 75.4 million as of last July and surpassed the shrinking baby boomer population, according to Pew Research Center senior researcher Richard Fry. He projects millennials to peak in 2036 at 81.1 million.
Okay, maybe I’m missing something, but if the cut-off for being a Millennial is being born before 1997 how is the number of Millennials suppose to increase by another ~5 million people by 2037? Immigration?
Two words to the old war horse lifers in our government,
TERM LIMITS!!
That was my question.
So if the cutoff is 1997 and that equates to 75.4, how in the world can that population expand??
Fools, just don’t get math!
It will expand as a percentage of the electorate as old farts like me take the dirt nap.
Except the article/quote didn’t express the expansion in terms of percent of the electorate. It said there would be ~5 million more Millennials by 2036.
Millennials, who are Americans born between 1981 and 1997, numbered 75.4 million as of last July and surpassed the shrinking baby boomer population, according to Pew Research Center senior researcher Richard Fry. He projects millennials to peak in 2036 at 81.1 million.
Who would to give up a job where don’t work most of the year and refuse to do their job and still get paid
Grassley studiously avoids giving Iowans a voice in public affairs. Example: Iowans, along with the nation, gave President Barack Obama its electoral votes in 2012, for a second 4-year term. We expect the President to continue performing all of his duties through the end of his term, including nominating persons to fill S.Ct. vacancies. Sen. Grassley, chair of the Senate Judiciary committee, has decided that Iowans’ views should be ignored because we favored a Democratic president.
There’s a better one word:
ELECTIONS
You can limit anyone’s term that you wish. Vote them out.
Except the article wasn’t equating percentage of population, it said the millennial population would increase from 75.4 at the 1997 cutoff, to 81.1 in 2036. Hmmm…what?
Yeah, except here in AZ each and every retiree votes re-puke! You know, old, white, afraid of their own shadows, daddy voted re-puke so they have to as well…
If my neighbors 20 year old cat was running as a re-puke against Einstein running as a dem, to a person they vote for the R, cat. Stupid!
Hence, TERM LIMITS!
I suppose you remember the term “yellow dog Democrat”. That was the Dem version of the pattern you mention. It’s hard to give people a reason to switch. I ran for State Senate a couple years ago. I tried to run on an issue of that time in my state, and it didn’t have much traction. I did learn a lot. I was surprised at how many people DID NOT support teachers at the level I did. I was actually kind of stunned about that in some cases - a fair amount of vitriol in some about teachers. And also Obama-care, which I would have had a little contact with (medicare extension). A LOT of people just hated that, and the ones who liked it were more luke-warm. That’s often what the issue is - passion against some D ideas can be REALLY INTENSE.
Sorry to hear what happened. Keep trying! Times hopefully are changing!
Except here in AZ. When they can’t win on their ideology, they cheat.
Throw away dems ballots (yup, happened to me and mr during the 2012 election) They sent our ballots out with big bold DEMOCRAT with our last names (ends with a vowel) printed on the outside of the ballot envelope. Guess which 298K ballots were tossed out? Wild guess.
OR, they close all the polling places. Not one polling place was open in dems areas during the presidential primary…wild guess why that happened!
They keep saying, well mail in your ballots. Not hardly! I’ll wait in line 5 hours before I let them toss our ballots again!