Here you go turkey:
Sorry Politico, Republicans Arent Dying Off
May 18, 2015 by Daniel Greenfield
The problem with the left these days is that its often hard to tell whether theyre lying or being stupid. Todays Politico troll, The GOP Is Dying Off. Literally is a case in point.
The Republican Party voter is oldand getting older, and as the adage goes, there are two certainties in life: Death and taxes. Right now, both are enemies of the GOP and they might want to worry more about the former than the latter.
Theres been much written about how millennials are becoming a reliable voting bloc for Democrats, but theres been much less attention paid to one of the biggest get-out-the-vote challenges for the Republican Party heading into the next presidential election: Hundreds of thousands of their traditional core supporters wont be able to turn out to vote at all.
The partys core is dying off by the day.
Since the average Republican is significantly older than the average Democrat, far more Republicans than Democrats have died since the 2012 elections.
Theres just one minor problem with this brilliant formula. Voters turn more conservative as they get older.
There arent only two voting blocs, very old people and very young people. Theres a wide stretch in between.
Older generations of Americans are much more likely to describe their political views as conservative than as liberal. This includes the large baby boom generation, of whom 44% identified as conservative and 21% as liberal last year.
And my own generation, Generation X
The ideological preferences of Gen Xers have varied a bit more over time, with the conservative advantage closer to 10 points in the 1990s and mostly in the mid-to-high teens since then. Since 2012, the conservative lead among this generation has shrunk, as there has been a slight drop in conservative identification (from 39% to 35%) and a slight increase in liberal identification (from 21% to 23%). This change has occurred about equally among the younger and older people in Generation X.
I guess Generation X will be dying off soon.
The fact of the matter is that X and millennials these days identify as majority independents. Party identification for both parties is shrinking, but Republicans have been winning independents under Obama.
The age gap, like the gender gap, may actually be a racial gap with millenials being more minority than previous generations. In which case this is yet another scam, much like the GOPs woman problem.