{"id":10928,"date":"2013-03-01T12:27:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T17:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=10928"},"modified":"2013-03-01T12:27:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T17:27:22","slug":"me-on-morning-edition-talking-about-young-people-and-the-republican-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=10928","title":{"rendered":"me on Morning Edition, talking about young people and the Republican Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote yesterday’s long post about the Republicans’ youth problem after taping an interview with NPR’s Don Gonyea. He was working on a March 1 “Morning Edition” story. The audio is here<\/a>, and these were my key points:<\/p>\n

For two elections in a row, Democrats have enjoyed a huge edge among [young] voters. And while many think that’s the way it’s always been, Levine says that’s not so.<\/p>\n

“As recently as 2000, the youth vote was evenly split between the Democrats and the Republicans. So the phenomenon of the Democrats getting a lion’s share of the youth vote is new, and it’s really problematic for the Republicans because this generation will continue to vote for 50 years,” Levine says.<\/p>\n

And, he says, Republicans shouldn’t simply think it’s a matter of young voters idolizing Obama.<\/p>\n

“Young people in the exit polls really aligned with Barack Obama on the issues as well. So I don’t think they just voted for him because the Black Eyed Peas liked him. I think they actually voted for him in both ’08 and ’12 because they agreed with him,” Levine says.<\/p>\n

Levine says that is the reality Republicans truly need to confront when it comes to the newest generation of voters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote yesterday’s long post about the Republicans’ youth problem after taping an interview with NPR’s Don Gonyea. He was working on a March 1 “Morning Edition” story. The audio is here, and these were my key points: For two elections in a row, Democrats have enjoyed a huge edge among [young] voters. And while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-election"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10928"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10947,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928\/revisions\/10947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}