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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYounger voters drove historic wins on election night
Younger voters drove historic wins on election nightPolitics Nov 8, 2017 5:25 PM EST
Driven by high Democratic turnout, Tuesday was an election of historic firsts, as voters across the country elected several openly transgender or gay people, as well as other barrier-breaking candidates, to local and state offices.
Democrats of all ages and backgrounds went to the polls, motivated in large part by the election of President Donald Trump. But it was the turnout of one group in particular younger voters that may have helped propel candidates like Danica Roem in Virginia, who became the first transgender person in the United States to win a state legislative seat.
LGBTQ advocates cautioned that it was difficult to read into voters motivations in backing Roem and other Democrats, like Andrea Jenkins in Minneapolis, the first African American transgender woman to win a race for a major city council seat.
But several said it was likely not a coincidence that enthusiasm seemed up among younger Democrats in an election that reflected a shift in attitudes about gay and transgender people in power.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/younger-voters-drove-historic-wins-on-election-night
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Younger voters drove historic wins on election night (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Nov 2017
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That 30 year old socialist in Virginia even had a 22 year old campaign manager
IronLionZion
Nov 2017
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IronLionZion
(45,667 posts)1. That 30 year old socialist in Virginia even had a 22 year old campaign manager
Lots of young people voted and some young people even won as candidates.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. Wow thats awesome!
If young people will consistently show up to vote we can transform this country!
MFM008
(19,837 posts)3. Perhaps if they realized
They could customize their country ?
My son is 34. He gets it.