Age Differences Between Political Parties

It is election season in the United States, and candidates are traveling the early caucus and primary states searching for support. Candidates shake hands will thousands of eligible voters, ages 18 on up, in the hopes of securing their vote. There is a lot riding on the upcoming national elections, like who will be the next Presidency of the United States and what political party will control the branches of government. Both the Democratic and the Republican Party are bidding for everybody’s votes, and there are big notable differences between the two political parties. We may be able to gain insight into how the age demographic will fall across the party lines in the upcoming 2016 election by looking at past literature written about the age make-up of the two national political parties. The research question for this paper will be: How does age affect political party affiliation? The Pew Research Center has found that “over the past decade, there has been a pronounced age gap in American politics...Younger Americans have been the Democratic Party’s strongest supporters in both vote preferences and

The Democratic Party has an optimistic view that attracts many young Americans to its party. It can only be assumed that as the older generation dies off and the youth start to outnumber the older generation, the Democrats will begin to outnumber Republicans in government. This might suggest survival of the Republican Party would perhaps be agenda or platform restructing to appeal to more of the youth in America. Republicans will need to attract more young Americans to their party if they want to continue to win