Political folklore has long held that voters become more conservative as they get older.”Well, yeah. Cohn’s analysis relied on just two data points: pre-election polls archived at the Roper Center for the 2012 and 2020 presidential elections. Lurching to the left is not what that “oldest rule in politics,” or “folklore,” predicts older voters would do. Data came from the General Social Survey (GSS), which has been conducting national surveys of Americans since 1972. Overall, the data showed that each cohort is more liberal, on balance, than the one that came before it.

Source: New York Times June 23, 2023 22:11 UTC