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Are Millennials Getting More Conservative?

FiveThirtyEight Politics

CHAPTER

The Tension I'm Feeling About American Politics

Nate Silver: Are we measuring are people moving to the right as they age? And if so, what are we defining that as? Republican identification, voting for Republican candidates, identifying as a conservative, adopting conservative issue positions. If anything, it's actually older voters have moved to the left on some of the questions relative to where they stood in say 2012. The person hasn't moved. The world has moved around them. But I guess I'm just thinking about describing the world as it has already been or is today.

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