Young voters (18-29), saw a 56 percent surge over its 2014 turnout, which is the highest increase in turnout among any age group. While only 31 percent of eligible younger voters showed up to the polls, this is an increase of several million voters and were to the benefit of Democrats. As Harvard University’s John Della Volpe noted, it is estimated that the overwhelming majority of the added young voters backed Democrats and were primarily responsible for the wins of Democratic candidates.
Demographic shifts:
Three voting blocs saw major shifts toward Democrats from 2014 to 2018: Women, young voters and senior citizens. The following shifts are of note:
Women voters went from D+4 in 2014 to D+19 in 2018 Young voters were D+11 in 2014 to D+35 in 2018 Voters 65 and older broke R+16 in 2014, but shifted toward Dems and were R+2 in 2018
To all the young people who are here today, there are now more eligible voters in your generation than in any other, which means your generation now has more power than anybody to change things. If you want it, you can make sure America gets out of its current funk. If you actually care about it, you have the power to make sure we seize a brighter future. But to exercise that clout, to exercise that power, you have to show up. In the last midterm elections in 2014, fewer than one in five young people voted. One in five. Not two in five, or three — one in five. Is it any wonder this Congress doesn’t reflect your values and your priorities? Are you surprised by that? This whole project of self-government only works if everybody’s doing their part. … if you thought elections don’t matter, I hope these last two years have corrected that impression.
Few things lay bare America’s pretentions about class so clearly as the distinction between a “tiny house” and a “mobile home.”
For people who may not get the nuance of this, and may at first say ‘a mobile home is, you know, mobile. You can put it on a trailer!’– you are wrong.
‘Mobile homes’ are not ‘homes that are mobile always’. They are ‘homes that are built somewhere else, and then transported to the site and set on the foundation’. The difference between a pre-fab mobile home and a pre-fab tiny house is like 99% style at this point. Most mobile homes *can’t* be moved once they’re set up, or if you tried you’d do all kinds of irrepairable damage.
A mobile home mostly fits in a very specific set of measurements, because single-wide and double-wide plots are standardized. A tiny house has a lot more variety, and they are built for hyperefficiency rather than to be inexpensive and standardized.
Double-wide trailer, built at a factory, minimally assembled on site and designed to house a family of 3 or 4 as cheaply as possible – sketchy and low class and old and dirty.
Tiny house, built at a factory, minimally assembled on site, and designed to house 1-2 people in some kind of minimalist’s paradise – cool and hip and THE FUTURE.
Functional difference between the two: the footprint, a paint job, some modular furniture and marketing.
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