Health 'reform' that Burdens our Young

[KrazyHorse]

Sorry, dude. Obama is a Boomer. Deal with it.

[rah]

But who elected him? If you look at the demos, it wasn't the boomers.

[Drake Tungsten]

Obama won every age-group except for 65 and older. He was elected by boomers, you lying sack of ****.

[rah]

I was not looking at it by age group victory but by total votes by age group.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Sorry, dude. Obama is a Boomer. Deal with it.

Depends on what you consider the ending year of the Boomer generation. Some (like Strauss and Howe) label it in 1960, while others go as far as 1966. Obama was born in 1961.

[Ming]

(CNN) -- Strong support from young and minority voters propelled Barack Obama on the road to the White House, exit polls showed Tuesday.

Voters in the 18 to 24 age group broke 68 percent for Obama to 30 percent for John McCain, according to the exit polling. Those in the 25 to 29 age bracket went 69 percent to 29 percent in Obama's favor.

The only age group where McCain prevailed was 65 and over, and that by just a 10-percentage-point margin, 54 percent to 44 percent, the exit polls showed.

Race played less of a role in the election than age, exit polls showed.

Enough said...

[KrazyHorse]

Yes, Gen Y sucks.

[Drake Tungsten]

Enough said...

You just proved my point and did nothing to support the point of your dumbass brother.

[rah]

Yeah, that didn't do it. I was trying to find it broken down by age and haven't been successful yet. But I'll stand by it, and you should refrain from being too insulting unless you can provide proof that I'm wrong. Yes, I know, wishful thinking. You'll be an ass regardless.

[Drake Tungsten]

You'll be an ass regardless.

The classiest poster on Poly deserves nothing less than my best.

[rah]

Thank you, Thank you.

[Ming]

You just proved my point and did nothing to support the point of your dumbass brother.

No such thing...

Roughly 129.4 million votes were cast for both Obama and McCain with Obama having about a 9.5 million margin of victory. Granted, this is pure votes and not electoral votes. His roughly 55% victory in the popular vote translated to a landslide of around 68% in the electoral vote.

Based on Gallop exit polls (and other exit polls showed similar results)

18% of the total voters were 18 - 29
66% of them voted for Obama, while 32% voted for McCain, and 2% voted others.
This created about a 7.9 million vote advantage for Obama, or about 83% of his total margin of victory.
The rest of that advantage, and more, was made up in the 30 - 44 category, where Obama got 52% of the vote.

So as the CNN story said, it was the youth that propelled Obama into the White House. It wasn't the boomers that elected him. The 45 plus crowd voted more for McCain. The non boomers are responsible for Obama.

[Drake Tungsten]

The 45 plus crowd voted more for McCain.

Your article says otherwise. As I said before, the 65+ age-group was the only one that broke for McCain.

[Ming]

Yeah... but the whole point was that you said the boomers put Obama into office, and that simply isn't true.
Real data shows how wrong that statement was.

You can lamely attempt to save face by saying that demographics breakdowns support your supporting argument about all groups but 65+ voted for Obama, but it doesn't change the fact that you were WRONG. The boomers didn't put Obama in the White House.

[Drake Tungsten]

The boomers didn't put Obama in the White House.

Yes, they did. Every age-group besides the elderly did. Your brother's attempt to pin the blame on younger generations is disingenuous at best