Tbh, the idea of the youth vote swinging an election seems like it's just never going to happen One history fun fact is that the 26th Amendment, creating a nationwide voting age of 18, passed in 1971, one year before Nixon crushed McGovern in a historic landslide
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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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