Gary Hart, McGovern's campaign manager at the time, was absolutely certain that the year after they got the right to vote was when youth turnout would be at its highest and made this the exact right time for an insurgent antiwar progressive
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He was right... in that the youth turnout was *the same* as older voter turnout (rather than the near-100% surge he was hoping for), and that was the peak It's gone down steadily since then
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I'm not saying it's a fact that young people don't care, I am saying that whatever structural reasons young people don't vote seem pretty inflexible regardless of whether they care or who's running And it's probably a mistake to think that what would make them care is monolithic
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I mean you know what presidential election did show a blip of increased youth participation, was Ronald Reagan's landslide in 1980
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Youth make a smaller percentage of the total population now too if I'm not mistaken, both due to longer living seniors and less births.
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Actually, 18-20-year-old voters probably swung the 2000 election to Bush. Bush won with 18-20-year-old while Gore won with all other age groups, likely because of the fear of Tipper Gore’s and Joe Lieberman’s crusades against music and video games.
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