Thanks to Juls and Mystery Pollster, here's a fascinating graph charting party-affiliation with age. I'm a bit suspicious as to how they're calculating for the 33%+ of people who don't self-identify with any party, but the overall visualization of the waves is awesome.
Quick takeaways:
- The velvet revolution is at hand. In the coming decade a strongly GOP-leaning wave is going to expire as the most progressive generation in history comes on-line.
- The GOP is good at politics. They've managed to build power without real majorities among the public. This is done through slick communications, driving up apathy among the general public while stoking their base, and by marginalizing Democrats among the power-elite so that there appear to be no clear alternatives.
But basically this means that the people want a progressive future and as long as we stay on target we'll win over time. My generation knows that politics matters and knows that the 24/7 cable newsmedia is not really a good source of information. I like our chances. Health care here we come.
