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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
You'd think people would care about generally the same issues, but they don't. Younger people are generally more concerned about the environment, extremely concerned about health insurance, and they're more interested in fundamentally changing the way politics works (hence the gravitation towards Obama). Young people are less likely to accept "this is the way politics has always been" as an excuse for certain political behaviors.
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Which raises another point. If we accept that younger voters and older voters are opposed on certain issues, is wooing the younger voters a wise political strategy? Baby boomers still make up the majority of the voter base from what I understand, and one would have to be very careful not to alienate that crowd.
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