Current Events > Ted Cruz is leading with Millennials in Texas.

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https://www.newsweek.com/ted-cruz-winning-texas-millennials-1866176

Awful

Another failed generation

I heard Ted Cruz is actually one person and not several.

Probably not in reality, but incumbency is powerful. Even if he's simply break even or slightly behind with that demo all told he's on track to reelection.

Also:

Cruz won 41 percent of millennials in a hypothetical matchup between both Allred and Gutierrez. Allred secured the support or 33 percent of millennials, while 35 percent said they would support Gutierrez.

That's a lot of undecided far out from an election day. "Millennials" are more fickle in early stage polling, and more likely to not even answer.

Its kinda misleading? Since its divided between three candidates.

Texas Millennials are Texans first and millennials second

Cruz is a disgusting human being, yet ahead by around 10 points. Young generations are going conservative for some bizarre reason. Might not even need election interference to keep power.

chaos_knight posted...

Cruz is a disgusting human being, yet ahead by around 10 points. Young generations are going conservative for some bizarre reason. Might not even need election interference to keep power.

There was a thread the other day about how Gen Z men were becoming more conservative.

VGAddict90 posted...

There was a thread the other day about how Gen Z men were becoming more conservative.

Why though?

CARRRNE_ASADA posted...

Its kinda misleading? Since its divided between three candidates.

Pretty sure it's 41/33 and 41/35 in individual head to heads.

But this is also a case of the "but I want/I don't want this candidate as the nominee" showing up in the polls for the Democrats pre primary.

chaos_knight posted...

Why though?

Feeling the pressures of late stage capitalism, developing insecurities because of it and then blaming those insecurities on the right's usual targets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J1bE5THXRE

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Feeling the pressures of late stage capitalism, developing insecurities because of it and then blaming those insecurities on the right's usual targets.

And it basically like entitled nice guy stuff. "I treated you with dignity that really should be the default norm, roll out the red carpet!".

wait, Ted Cruz is still running for president?

i thought he dropped like Ronnie did...

ZevLoveDOOM posted...

wait, Ted Cruz is still running for president?

i thought he dropped like Ronnie did...

This is for the Senate...

oh, nvm. lol

Texas gonna Tex

Vyrulisse posted...

I heard Ted Cruz is actually one person and not several.

That's only because legally the swarm of locusts inside the hollow shell of his skin count as a single person.

How much stock would you put into this?

VGAddict90 posted...

How much stock would you put into this?

This far out? None.

AnsestralRecall posted...

Another failed generation

we're ashamed of millenial generation. some of us are born into that.

sure as hell wouldn't vote for ted cruz (he left people to die in the cold) while going to cancun.

VGAddict90 posted...

There was a thread the other day about how Gen Z men were becoming more conservative.

There's a lot of noise here, some of it stemming from a method shift from a major company that people are using without thinking about how the method shift changes results.

Gen z men seem like they're roughly even with millennial men, from a touch more conservative to a bit more conservative, while gen z women are significantly more liberal.

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Does it matter? Most polls are garbage and conducted with agendas these days.

I attended public school in Texas for a few years in the 90s this does not surprise me

they mostly just learn about the alamo

Why is there something wrong with them?

it's pretty meaningless this far out. I never even heard of the dem candidate till now, and I live here. Dude is an unknown to basically everyone.

GrandConjuraton posted...

Does it matter? Most polls are garbage and conducted with agendas these days.

AgEnDaS

The two-term incumbent is polling at 41 percent among millennial against candidates who have yet to win their primary, is another way to phrase this.

Looks like being a boomer skips a generation.

Gonna skip GenX and go right to Millennials.

bigblu89 posted...

Looks like being a boomer skips a generation.

Gonna skip GenX and go right to Millennials.

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/1217878506/gen-x-conservative-disapprove-biden

"Gen X is the most Republican of the generations," said Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University and author of the book Generations, which examines what drives generational differences.
NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist polling underscores that point: By generation, Biden has the highest disapproval rating from Generation X (62%), compared with the Silent/Greatest Generation (48%), baby boomers (48%) and Generation Z/millennials (50%). Biden also has the highest "strongly disapprove" rating from Gen X (52%), compared with the Silent/Greatest Generation (41%), boomers (39%) and Gen Z/millennials (35%).

name_unknown posted...

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/1217878506/gen-x-conservative-disapprove-biden

"Gen X is the most Republican of the generations," said Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University and author of the book Generations, which examines what drives generational differences.
NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist polling underscores that point: By generation, Biden has the highest disapproval rating from Generation X (62%), compared with the Silent/Greatest Generation (48%), baby boomers (48%) and Generation Z/millennials (50%). Biden also has the highest "strongly disapprove" rating from Gen X (52%), compared with the Silent/Greatest Generation (41%), boomers (39%) and Gen Z/millennials (35%).

Lol. Guess not

name_unknown posted...

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/1217878506/gen-x-conservative-disapprove-biden

"Gen X is the most Republican of the generations," said Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University and author of the book Generations, which examines what drives generational differences.
NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist polling underscores that point: By generation, Biden has the highest disapproval rating from Generation X (62%), compared with the Silent/Greatest Generation (48%), baby boomers (48%) and Generation Z/millennials (50%). Biden also has the highest "strongly disapprove" rating from Gen X (52%), compared with the Silent/Greatest Generation (41%), boomers (39%) and Gen Z/millennials (35%).

At best, a nebulous interpretation of a result. The "Gen X" age bracket has moved into one of the more conservative brackets, middle age. Age matters more than the generation.

The comparison is only valid if you produce the other generations results at the same age as the Gen X in this poll are.

Also, the assumption of disapproval of any single politician does not automatically mean party lean.

bigblu89 posted...

Lol. Guess not

poll is only about Biden not Dems in general and the poll combined Gen Z/millennials into one. So some answers can be Biden doesn't push enough left issues. Rising costs and stagnate wages is the reason Gen X is cited to drift to GOP/Trump.

"Gen Xers are facing a cascading series of economic concerns: aging parents, raising children, saving for retirement, rising housing costs, higher food and gas prices, all hitting most acutely in middle age.
"You're feeling every squeeze of modern society at this age in your life, which most people in their 40s and 50s do feel," said Amy Walter, a nonpartisan political analyst with The Cook Political Reportand a Gen Xer. "I just think we are uniquely situated in a very uncomfortable place right now."
That resonates with Sheryl Graham, 55, who lives near Clearwater, Fla., and has three kids. "We live paycheck to paycheck. I'm thinking I probably have to sell my house to make money," Graham told NPR.
"If we get another Republican back in office, I think I will be just fine," she said. Graham said she has voted for Democrats in the past, specifically Bill Clinton and Obama, but never intends to again.
Walters added that Trump's "Make America Great Again" messaging appeals to older voters, particularly boomers but also their Gen X children. "They saw their parents doing well or making a decent life that they feel like they weren't able to have the same access to could be the other piece."
That message is also more likely to resonate with white Gen Xers who make up 60%of their generation than nonwhite individuals. Darnell Bender is 55, Black and a Democrat who lives outside Atlanta. He feels pretty optimistic about the state of the country under Biden. "On the Republican side, you know, it's like America has fallen into this dark, deep crevice and only this person can drag us out. And I'm like, I don't see that," he said, "The way Trump tries to paint it, to make it almost like scaring people into voting for him, which is crazy."

^gotta say most GenX's I've met have been pretty conservative. Some are less overall, but get them talking about gay or trans rights and boy watch the hoods come out. Also most of the Karen's we see online are GenX. We just tend lump everyone under the term "Boomer".

Nobody represents the true heart of the Texan as well as Ted Cruz does.

chaos_knight posted...

Why though?

They're growing up. Someone born in 1995 is damn near 30 now, and that's about the time the typical American starts transitioning from benefiting from entitlements to paying for someone else to benefit from entitlements.

Bit misleading, there's 3 candidates, the other 2,are they more or less conservative than Cruz? Being Texas they might actually be worse than Cruz, that's a distinct possibility.

Questionmarktarius posted...

They're growing up. Someone born in 1995 is damn near 30 now, and that's about the time the typical American starts transitioning from benefiting from entitlements to paying for someone else to benefit from entitlements.

Pretty much this.

I'm 45. I live in New York, so maybe my view is skewed a little bit, but the tired term of "Fiscally Conservative, Socially Liberal" describes many people around my age that live in my area.

Now that we all have our little piece of the pie, many of them aren't willing to share it. But converse to that, we all know, love, or generally mind our business about who's trying to marry who, who's getting an abortion, or any other "hot button" social issue.

41 for the reference and 42 April. Yay(?).

bigblu89 posted...

Now that we all have our little piece of the pie, many of them aren't willing to share it. But converse to that, we all know, love, or generally mind our business about who's trying to marry who, who's getting an abortion, or any other "hot button" social issue.

Yeah, it's why I don't get bother by others attempt at sensitivity (that is oversensitivity).

I feel it hypocritical borders on virtue signaling for people feeling the need to declare themselves non-bigoted while acting like apathy is any better.