Yup, the GOP is f'd with young people

[hay rick]

29. They are disenfranchising themselves.

One of the primary goals of negative advertising is to get people to stay home instead of voting. It works amazingly well. I compiled stats by age group in my county in Florida. Read it and weep.

The percentages represent eligible to vote/actually voted for 2014. I used census age ranges. I didn't correct for felon exclusion, so the real numbers are probably about 10% greater- i.e. 20% would be 22%. The important points are that younger voters are grossly under-represented and younger doesn't necessarily mean young...

18-34 19%
35-54 32%
55-64 59%
65-79 70%
80+ 64%

More disconnect- I also tracked the most recent quarter's registrations in our county. This is a very red county. Overall registration in the county stands at

R 49.4%
D 25.6%
O 25.0%

last quarter registrations

R 36.1%
D 20.5%
O 43.4%

Hurray. Republican registration is collapsing faster than Democratic registration. The bad news here is that Florida is a closed primary state, and people who shut themselves out of the first half of the electoral process are more likely to opt out of the second half.