A new Reason-Rupe
survey and report of millennials, Americans ages 18-29, find this
cohort may be more difficult to politically pigeonhole than
previously thought. Reason Foundation’s director of polling, Emily
Ekins, analyzes the data and highlights interesting facts. For
example, despite record-breaking Democratic presidential voting
among 18- to 29-year-olds in the past few elections, millennials
are no more Democratic (43 percent) than Americans over 30 (49
percent). Instead, they are three times as likely to say they are
independent (34 percent) and half as likely to be Republican (23
percent). Their attitudes on many issues, from same-sex marriage
and the federal deficit to marijuana legalization and soda bans,
signal the potential for them to become the most socially tolerant,
fiscally responsible generation in the nation’s history.
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