![]() New poll on the gun reforms that Michigan Democrats are trying to pass Ignore the kids, Republicans. Stick to the Fox News demographic. I can think of no misconception more damaging to the future of conservatism than the idea that young people are a lost cause and we must just passively wait for them to awaken to our way of seeing the world. Yet in a decade and a half of studying young voters, I hear this quote and its underlying sentiment constantly from those on the right. “If you ever hear someone claiming to quote Winston Churchill saying ‘If you’re young and conservative you have no heart if you’re old and liberal, you have no brain,’ please let them know that everything they’ve just said is incorrect.”Ĭhurchill is not on record as ever having said it, and there’s not a shred of data to support the claim that young people are naturally progressives. I pondered for a moment, not wanting to assign “homework” that would be too daunting, labor-intensive, or, worse, forgettable. As we discussed the question of what to do next, I was asked what one concrete thing I’d want everyone around the table to do that might make a difference for the future of the ideas we care about. The night after the polls closed in this midterm, when it was increasingly clear that a bold Republican victory would not be in the offing, I joined a few friends for some dinner and commiseration. The stark educational split in attitudes toward Trump frames the strategic challenge for his potential rivals in the 2024 race.Ī collective "blue collar" or "working class" voting bloc doesn't really exist in the U.S today, even though politicians and the media often invoke this idea. ![]() “I think we’ll continue to see a big education divide in his support in 2024.” “Trump does seem to have a special ability to make this sort of populist appeal and also have a special ability to make college-educated conservatives start thinking about alternatives,” GOP pollster Chris Wilson said in an email. Ron DeSantis in the lead overall (with the latest round tilting mostly toward Trump), that same overriding pattern of educational polarization is appearing in virtually all of those surveys, a review of public and private polling data reveals. Though the early 2024 polls have varied in whether they place Trump or Florida Gov. This is the dynamic that could decide the 2024 GOP race It sets up a Medicare debate for the 2024 election, staking out President Biden's position to sustain Medicare by further lowering drug prices and taxing high-income people.- Larry Levitt March 7, 2023 President Biden's budget is a messaging document that's going nowhere in the Republican-controlled House.
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