{"id":15271,"date":"2015-05-15T14:21:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T18:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=15271"},"modified":"2015-05-15T14:21:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T18:21:29","slug":"talking-lowering-voting-age-wisconsin-public-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=15271","title":{"rendered":"talking about lowering the voting age on Wisconsin Public Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, I was on the Kathleen Dunn show, which airs in Wisconsin and the upper Midwest. The title of the segment was\u00a0&#8220;Partisanship among the Generations,&#8221; and\u00a0Jocelyn Kiley\u00a0from the Pew Research Center talked about the interesting results of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people-press.org\/2015\/04\/30\/a-different-look-at-generations-and-partisanship\/\">recent study<\/a> on that topic.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, what jumps out at me from their survey of 25,000 people is that a person&#8217;s\u00a0specific birth year seems to influence her\u00a0political orientation, with each year differing quite a bit from its neighbors. For instance, my birth year cohort (1967) seems more liberal than the years on either side. A\u00a0likely explanation has\u00a0nothing to do with the year of <em>birth<\/em> but rather the\u00a0political events that occur about 18 years later, when the cohort\u00a0first votes. The year-by-year variation undermines broad generalizations about 20-year generations.<\/p>\n<p>After 30 minutes with Jocelyn Kiley, Kathleen turned to me and was mainly interested in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2015\/02\/voting-age-17-115466.html#.VVYPMPlVhBc\">our argument for lowering the voting age to 17<\/a> so that people can vote while they are still in high school. I&#8217;ve discussed that idea on other radio shows, but the Wisconsin public radio audience was much more enthusiastic. There were lots of callers; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpr.org\/shows\/partisanship-among-generations\">audio is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, I was on the Kathleen Dunn show, which airs in Wisconsin and the upper Midwest. The title of the segment was\u00a0&#8220;Partisanship among the Generations,&#8221; and\u00a0Jocelyn Kiley\u00a0from the Pew Research Center talked about the interesting results of their recent study on that topic. By the way, what jumps out at me from their survey [&hellip;]<\/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":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-and-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15271","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=15271"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15278,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15271\/revisions\/15278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}