As GOP celebrates win, no sign of narrowing gender, age gaps

[applegrove]

As GOP celebrates win, no sign of narrowing gender, age gaps

By Jocelyn Kiley at the Pew Research Center

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/11/05/as-gop-celebrates-win-no-sign-of-narrowing-gender-age-gaps/

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Yesterday’s elections brought a widespread win for the Republican Party, which will increase its share of seats in the House in the next Congress, and take over the Senate, with a net gain of at least seven seats.

Nationally, 52% of voters backed Republican candidates for Congress, while 47% voted for Democrats, according to exit polls by the National Election Pool, as reported by The New York Times. The overall vote share is similar to the GOP’s margin in the 2010 elections, and many of the key demographic divides seen in that election — particularly wide gender and age gaps — remain.

Men favored Republicans by a 16-point margin (57% voted for the GOP, 41% for Democrats) yesterday, while women voted for Democratic candidates by a four-point margin (51% to 47%). This gender gap is at least as large as in 2010: In that election men voted for Republicans by a 14-point margin while women were nearly evenly split, opting for GOP candidates by a one-point margin.

2014 Midterm Exit Polls, AgesAnd well-known generational divides were again in evidence in Tuesday’s election. Young voters have been the Democratic Party’s strongest supporters over the last decade, as they were again yesterday, while Republicans fared best among older voters. But — as in 2010 — an older electorate compared with presidential elections advantaged the GOP.



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[nomorenomore08]

1. Guess we'll have to wait till the Gen X'ers get old and the Millennials (like me) become middle-aged

to finally bury this malignant post-Reagan conservatism. Entire generations have been brainwashed against their own self-interest.

Question is, what will we have left by then?