Nate Cohn
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first heard Apr 2025
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The same demographic groups aligned between each one's, they showed the same strengths, they showed the same weaknesses.
And the fact that the results are so similar suggests that the
The most powerful factor that's shaping what's happening in these races are these underlying big divides in the National Democratic Party, not the idiosyncrasies of these races.
And so I think we can learn a lot from them as a result.
I think you have to start with age.
The most obvious thing that's driving support for the progressive left, both in the actual results, when you look at it precinct by precinct or county by county and in the polling, is that young voters overwhelmingly back the candidates of the progressive left, while older voters uh support moderate establishment candidates.
The polls say that they won overwhelming margins, like 60, 70%, maybe even 80% of the vote.
And that's what we see in the youngest neighborhoods and precinct.
Precincts of these states, particularly on the college campuses of the big flagship universities, like the University of Michigan or the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
There are precincts where El Sayed won 95% of the vote in Ann Arbor.
There are precincts that are sort of, for lack of a better word, young hip, gentrifying neighborhoods in Milwaukee where you see similarly, maybe not 95% lopsided margins, but 70, 80% margins of
Even for Francesca Hong.
Well, in some sense, this is a story that we've seen in the Democratic Party for for decades now.
Young voters who come of age and are dissatisfied with the country and want to see changes, then look naturally to something that's even farther to the left of what the Democratic Party has offered in the past.
And then that's what the young voters campaign on, whether it's in the nineteen sixties in the civil rights movement, Barack Obama versus Hillary Clinton, or now the Democratic Socialists against the kind of mainstream progressive.
Of the Obama era.
I think that sentiment's been supercharged by some particular factors to this moment, the struggles that young people think they have in today's post-financial crisis economy.
And I think it's also worth mentioning the way that, for lack of a better word, the intellectual climate of today's age shapes the views of young voters.
There are ideas from academia about capitalism and sexism and white supremacy and
Intersectionality that are all very familiar to us today, but which an older generation of college graduates had never heard of, even while we're all familiar with Judith Butler or something.
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