The chart above was made from information provided by the Pew Research Center. That information was garnered from 12 surveys done during 2014 of 26,010 randomly chosen adults, and has a margin of error of only 0.7 points.
If you have been wondering why the Republicans would try to limit who can vote in our elections, and did some serious gerrymandering in 2010, this chart should answer that question for you. They are not only outnumbered by Democrats, but each generation is seeming to be more Democratic than the last. The only generation that has more Republicans than Democrats is the Silent generation (those between the ages of 69 and 86). The Baby Boomers (50 to 68), the Gen-Xers (34 to 49), and the Millennials (18 to 33) all have more Democrats than Republicans.
Those Millennials should especially worry the Republicans. They have a 16 point gap favoring the Democrats, and as political scientists have shown, voters tend to stay with the party they first voted for all their lives.
The Republicans could start to remedy this by moderating their rather hateful views, but they don't seem to be interested in doing that -- and that forecasts a bleak view for their party.
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