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LeftWingPunk Donating Member (54 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-09-10 12:06 PM
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did you know that FDR...
won 85% of the under 30 vote the first two times he ran for office? I thought that the 66% of the under 30 vote for Obama was a lot but the overwhelming of support by young people for Roosevelt was impressive. Everyone under 30 in '32 and '36 was part of the GI Generation. A lot of people (including myself) thought that the GI Generation was a generation of Archie Bunker types but as I find out, that isn't the case.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-09-10 12:08 PM
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1. Hoover was universally reviled. I know several New Dealers in their '80s. Not Bunker types at all.
Especially women.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-09-10 12:10 PM
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2. Another FYI: in '32 the majority of black voters voted for Hoover. In '36 for FDR. nt
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dflprincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-09-10 12:17 PM
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3. In 1932 or even in 1936, not a whole lot of the "greatest generation" was old enough to vote
(remember voting age was 21 back then). In 1932 my dad & mom were only 12 & 8 and I really can't think of any friends whose parents would have been old enough to vote by 1936 even among those whose dads served in WWII.
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-09-10 12:18 PM
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4. But they were young then -- maybe it's before Archie went into his bunker.
;-)
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Ozymanithrax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-09-10 12:25 PM
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5. The G.I. Generation, thous born between 1901 and 1924...
followed the "Lost Generation" that fought in World War I
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