Millennials, especially the downtown college oriented knowledge worker Gen Yers, may be impacting change by also stepping up to vote. After being quiet at the 2014 polls, and disheartened by the rigged 2016 nomination, they might just turn out big this fall.
The election this month of Ayanna Pressley to Congress carried all the indications, with an urban area "new Boston" being cited, and this very-Gen Y style quote from one young high tech worker,
“It felt like a good time to give someone who’s not a white male a shot."
To be clear, there is no research of which I know that says young people today vote any less than young people in previous generations. Nicely symbolic of the change is the fact that Pressley will represent the congressional district that John F. Kennedy once represented. I think he would approve.
Pressley is a Gen Xer and Geoff Diehl is a Babyboomer. Wrong generation gap.
Posted by: Anonymous | September 10, 2018 at 08:46 AM