(11-11-2022, 12:31 PM)NewJagsCity Wrote:

(11-11-2022, 10:43 AM)americus 2.0 Wrote: An interesting bit of information. The reason why the Democratic party has success with elections in general is they get out there and really work to get the youth vote, except in rural NC evidently. They're pretty aggressive and this midterm election shows that. The Republican party needs to get off their butts and start doing the same or things are going to look very different going forward. 

Have the Republicans always taken this posture of thinking people will just show up and vote the "sensible" way? Like, they assume Republican households will spawn kids who grow up to vote the same as their parents? 

That Fetterman fellow was born and raised in a conservative home yet turned out to be a progressive. My husband was raised by parents who are democrats, old school democrats, yet he is most definitely a conservative Republican. I was raised in a home that was not political, at all. My parents voted but politics was never discussed nor was it a standard to live by. How I turned out Libertarian is a mystery to me other than at the basic level I think people should be able to live their lives responsibly without interference from the government. 

Anyway.....the link to the article.

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Dems credit Gen Z vote for helping exceed midterm expectations, not so much in NC

Results from Tuesday's midterm elections are still coming in. But what's certain is the impact of younger voters. Gen Z voters are getting lots of credit from Democrats for helping stave off a Republican red wave. But, while there were large youth voting numbers in several states, the numbers were not as high in North Carolina.

MARCHING TO THE POLLS

In the run up to the midterms, they turned polling sites into parties. Raleigh's Shaw and St. Augustine's Universities teamed up to march to the polls. At Fayetteville State, they called it a Trot to the Polls. The goals were the same: encourage as many young voters to cast a ballot as possible.

And as the national results came in, Tuesday night, one thing was apparent: Gen Z showed up. 27% of midterm voters were age 18 to 29 -- the second-highest midterm youth turnout for any midterm vote.



In North Carolina -- 53% of newly registered voters were under 35 -- more than double the last election. But while younger voters historically skew toward Democrats, they did not turnout in North Carolina in as high a number as other parts of the country.

I haven't looked at why NC has turned so blue in recent elections, but it certainly has.  I'm attributing a lot of it to NE retirees in places like Ashville and Charlotte, but maybe that's misguided on my part.

That's pretty much it but they're not just going to Asheville and Charlotte. I live in a county that has a huge golf community. The U.S. Open recently moved it's headquarters here from what I understand. There are a great many retirees here from the northeast that live in the golf country clubs of which there are many as well as folks who retire from the Army while stationed at Fort Bragg and decide to stay here. They bring their politics with them when they claim NC as their permanent residence. 

We also have folks who move here from Chicago, California, and other blue states for work and they bring their politics. 

The crazy thing is we always seem to have a red governor and blue Lt governor or vice versa. At least in the 11 years I've lived here. Right now our governor is democrat and our Lt governor is republican. Fiscally we always seem to look like a red state. My husband has lived here his whole life and explained it to me once or twice but I don't remember specifics. 

I just know it's a crazy purple state. Thank God my county seems to stay on the conservative side of things though that is a mystery considering all the blue state retirees we have here.

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