It’s about Biden’s particularly presentation of his age — but also about deeper generational tensions.
But there’s a bigger difference, too: Biden is the oldest president in history at a moment whenShare this articleUsing voter registration data from the firm L2, we can view the distribution of party registrations and nonpartisan voters by age. The Republican Party skews particularly old; while baby boomers aren’t overwhelmingly Republican, they are more likely to be Republican than are younger voters.
The challenge for Democrats — and specifically for Biden — is that those younger voters will eventually make up most of the electorate but that they do not currently. Data from the shows how turnout rates in 2020 increased as voting age increased. Only once the voting population reached its late 70s did turnout drop off.
So it’s not just that Biden is viewed skeptically by a party that skews younger than the opposition . It’s thatfrom his party and younger independents who often vote Democratic is already lower — and turnout suffers more when people are apathetic about candidates.found that the percentage of the electorate that was older than the baby boom — a group that votes more heavily Republican — fell from 16 percent to 8 percent between 2016 and 2020.
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