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With the center for American Progress . Its the young adult advocacy arm and we work with 18 to 35yearolds and with and for young people for the most pressing problems facing our nation and our generations. Well talk about generations particularly the millennial generation and generation z as its known. Define the two terms first. Roughly folks born between 1981 and 96. We have been thought to be the youngest generation out there. But in fact, generation z is of voting age. They follow millennials. You have 18, 19, 20, 21yearolds in the age range. Every election cycle theres excitement about the potential for the youth votes. And then every cycle without fail the youth vote has the lowest turnout rate compared to other generations. Back in election 2020 2018 i apologize, it was 30 lower than 60 plusyearolds. Do you have any expectation that that pattern is going to change in 2020 . Yeah, absolutely. So i would actually reframe ....
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Define those terms. Guest millennials were born between 1981 and 1996. We were thought to be the youngest generation out there, but generation z is now of voting age. You have 18, 19, 20 euros in that age range. Host every election cycle there is excitement about the potential for the youth vote. Every cycle without fail, the youth vote has the lowest turnout compared to other generations. 2018, it was 30 lower than the 60 plusyearolds. Do you have expectations that that pattern is going to change in 2020 . Guest yes. I would reframe 2018. We had the highest turnout in 25 years in 2018 midterms. Midterms, from 2014 which is nearly a 50 increase overall. When we take away from that is that there is great opportunity, 31 voted which means 69 didnt so there is huge and opportunity. The movement and advancement is hugely promising going into 2020. Host how do you get to the rates of 60 plusyearolds who are, the turnout rate was just under 70 for 60 plusyearolds. Will you ever get there wit ....
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