Youth Voter Turnout Grew By Nearly 80% In 2018, And 2020 Will Be Even Higher

According to a new report, the turnout among youth voters in the United States surged by a staggering 79% in 2018 to 36%. While that may still seem like a small number, you have to remember that this was only a midterm election year and turnout is always lower for midterms than for presidential elections. The young generation could be the most powerful voting bloc in 2020, all they have to do is show up, but these new numbers show that they aren’t as apathetic as the older generations like to say that they are. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

There's actually some good news as we head into the 2020 elections, and that good news for 2020 actually comes from 2018 uh, recently, the Census Bureau released statistics showing that the youth voter turnout in the 2018 midterms had increased by nearly 80% over what it was in the last mid terms. The 2014 midterms, nearly an 80% increased 79% to be exact in youth voter turnout. Here's the thing though, the turnout was in 2014 20%. So in 2018 it rose to 36% still a relatively small number. However, when compared to the turnout rates of other groups and the country as a whole, not horrible, it's getting better, it's getting much better growth of 80% in any particular demographic is phenomenal, especially when you consider the fact that midterms typically have lower turnout rates. But this past midterm could either be an anomaly or a sign of things to come. We don't know that yet. You also had massive surges in a turnout among Hispanics and Asians here in the United States, both by over 10%.

Okay? And we all know obviously what happened in the midterms, Democrats did get that blue wave. It wasn't a parent. We knew Democrats took back the house on election night, but it actually took a couple of days, maybe even a couple of weeks to see how big that blue wave actually ended up being, but it was pretty massive. Okay. It's because of this increase in voter turnout.

So again, the question is will this be in anonymous an anomaly, is it going to be a onetime little blip or is this the way things are now? Because if we take that surge and taken into 2020 where things are going to increase, again, this is suddenly a different electorate here in the United States. These are different demographics to play with. These are different people with different views who are suddenly voting like they never have before. People with different values, people with different goals for this country,

It is obvious the youth voters do not care about the same issues as an 80 year old voter and that's not a knock on this person or this group, but they don't. An 80 year old voter typically is not going to care as much about climate change as an 18 year old. Why?

Because the senior citizen understands that that's not going to be something that truly affects them. And that's not saying that that age group doesn't care about it. There are plenty who do, but psychological studies show us that as we get older, as our bodies get older, as our minds get older, we typically start to view things is how they affect us personally, individually, and worry about protecting ourselves because we are more fragile than we used to be. That psychology at work, that's not me knocking some age group, by the way. But nonetheless, this young group, these young voters make up the largest voting block in the United States today. We beat the baby boomers folks.

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