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Who is the largest single voting bloc?

Edit: That struck a chord with millenials, ha! Tell your friends that bitching does not help, voting does. Boomers seem to understand this and so they have a disproportionate amount of influence. You want it to stop? VOTE.



Generations don't vote as blocks, but of the named generations the largest number of actual voters are Boomers, still.

2018 was the first election where Gen X and younger together outvoted Boomers and older.


> Edit: That struck a chord with millenials, ha! Tell your friends that bitching does not help, voting does. Boomers seem to understand this and so they have a disproportionate amount of influence. You want it to stop? VOTE.

There is, still, a statistical bump in the boomers, hence the baby boom.

There is just more of them, and they vote. They've only just started dying in big numbers.

Plus the older voters get the more they tend to vote, for various reasons.


It's my understanding that millenials and gen-z make up 31% [0], as of -2020-. Boomers and older still make up 44%. So sure, go ahead and blame millenials and gen-z for policies made in 2020 and onward.

0: https://catalist.us/wh-national/




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