Analysis: Millennial Texans might be louder, but they're not voting

[TexasTowelie]

By Ross Ramsey, Texas Tribune


Derek Ryan, a young Texas voter who also happens to be a political consultant, is finally starting to see some of his peers talking and posting about politics and showing up on lists of voters. It’s taken long enough: He’s in his early 40s.

He also has crunched the numbers, finding that his anecdotal experience is not anecdotal at all. Younger Texans aren’t voting, and it’s particularly bad in Ryan’s own party, the Texas GOP.

In the 2018 Republican primary in March, voters over the age of 70 outnumbered voters under the age of 50. More than three-quarters of the voters were 50 or older, Ryan found in his analysis of voter turnout.

In this year’s Democratic primary, grandchildren outnumbered grandparents, with voters under the age of 40 outnumbering those over the age of 70. Even so, more than 60 percent of the Texans who voted in the Democratic primary this year were over the age of 50.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2018/05/18/analysis-millennial-texans-might-be-louder-theyre-not-voting/

[RandySF]

1. Let's wait and see in November

I think primaries are poor gauges since “normal” people look at them as inside baseball. Milennials did pretty well for of-year ekectiond in Virginia and Alabama.

[dlk]

2. Texas Public Schools Have Been Awful for Decades

This has helped create the cultivated ignorance so prevalent there.