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pstokely

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Wed Jan 18, 2017, 05:59 PM Jan 2017

Generation Gone: Where are all the Gen X Democrats?

http://www.salon.com/2016/03/07/generation_gone_where_are_all_the_gen_x_democrats/

"It’s hard to miss the difference: Line up the Republican candidates for president, as keeps happening on debate stages every few weeks, and you see Ted Cruz (born 1970) and Marco Rubio (born 1971) standing alongside older pols. Listen to them, and you hear talk about East Coast vs. West Coast hip-hop, favorite “Simpsons” episodes and movies like “The Usual Suspects.” You hear Rubio talking about a new generation and a new century.

Look more broadly at the field of prominent Republicans, and you see Nikki Haley, Bobby Jindal and Scott Walker. You see Paul Ryan – now speaker of the House – who has expressed his love, however unwelcome by the band itself, for Rage Against the Machine.

You see, in other words, a bunch of Gen Xers in prominent positions – including two who have spent months in serious contention for the GOP nomination – with few equivalents on the Democratic side.

What happened? And can the Democrats put their Xer politicians forward, for the sake of Xers and the nation as a whole?"
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Generation Gone: Where are all the Gen X Democrats? (Original Post) pstokely Jan 2017 OP
Gavin Newsom is a gen xer who could become governor of California. kimbutgar Jan 2017 #1
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