As George Washington University political science Prof. John Sides wrote earlier this month, 18-year-old voters casting their initial ballot in 2012 broke for Mitt Romney over Obama. Romney won 19 and 20-year-olds, too.
“The
political identities of future generations will depend on economic
trends and the popularity of presidents who haven’t been elected. Maybe
those factors will tend to break in Democrats’ favor, and maybe they
won’t,” writes Professor Sides on the Monkey Cage political science blog
of the Washington Post
It will be interesting to see how these new voters do in 2016 when they are just getting out of college. Will they be saddled with debt with no job prospects on the horizon? Victims of the Obameconomy they will probably still be effected by the slow-assed recovery.
They get to stay on their parents health plans for few years but that is if their parents still have them. We might see a wave of businesses cutting their health plans and save money by taking the penalty. So they might not even get a chance to stay on their parents plan once they graduate.
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