The youth vote is a moving target, a political unicorn running through a field of poppies, shooting rainbows from its ass. Democrats in particular seem to spend an enormous amount of time trying to activate 15 percent or so of the voting pool in general elections (lower in the off-cycle races). Yes, youth participation was up in 2018, and meaningfully so. The percentage of millennials who voted in 2014 was nearly doubled in 2018. Want to know why? Because the oldest millennials (for our purposes, people born between 1980 and 2000) are closing in on forty, the age when voter participation tends
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