The online survey of more than 16,000 registered voters ages 18 to 34 shows their support for Democrats over Republicans for Congress slipped by about 9 percentage points over the past two years, to 46 percent overall. And they increasingly say the Republican Party is a better steward of the economy.While it will be surprising if the GOP doesn’t lose some seats in the House this November, the widely predicted (and hoped for) “blue wave” may be more of a blue ripple. One can at least hope to hang onto a bare House majority.
That presents a potential problem for Democrats who have come to count on millennials as a core constituency - and will need all the loyalty they can get to achieve a net gain of 23 seats to capture control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November.
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Long time COTTonLINE readers shouldn’t find the observed changes in political orientation of Millennials puzzling. We have long noted the pattern of people becoming more conservative as the maturation process winds down in their 30s.
It’s why Democrats fight to keep the campesino pipeline flowing, they know the Bernie bros will grow up, buy a house in suburbia and, finally having something to lose, sell out and become Republicans. If pied piper Kanye West leads any significant number of African-Americans away from the Dems, they’re in a real hurt.
