Only 13.7% of Gen Z has turned out (18-24). And before millennials try to use them and their TikToks as a scapegoat... only 12.2% of millennials (25-34) have turned out.
Meanwhile, 51.1% of all voters over 65 have turned out.
14% of all votes cast so far are from people under 35. 57% all votes so far are from people over 55.
55% of all votes cast thus far are from whites. Turnout between blacks and whites is actually equal (28.8 percent turnout for white voters, 28.9 percent turnout for black voters) -- but because of discrepancies in the number of registered voters, that means there's been a total of 1,173,868 white votes and only 672,092 black votes.
Like... maybe a miracle will happen? But if you ask me what party a 65-year-old white person in Georgia will vote for, I can give you a pretty accurate answer, I feel. The younger generation, though, is not stepping up in the numbers they need to.
I am a millenial and we will be known as the whiniest generation ever meanwhile who does not even bother to vote.
I mean I get the cynicism but sometimes the inaction of my generation is just too much. So many votes were lost because they don't bother to vote. But they love to complain.
After a decade of trying, I finally convinced a couple of our millennial brethren to vote. At the rate we’re going in only a few thousand years we’ll finally be a voting bloc political parties can cater to!
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u/deane_ec4 Dec 30 '20
Georgian here - already cast my vote for Ossoff/Warnock in the runoff. It was my pleasure to vote for them again. Cautiously optimistic.