Millennial Voters

A recent poll of millennial voters, that is, voters born between 1982 and 1996, said that they would be much more likely to vote for the Democratic candidate in any given race.

One very possible reason for this is the changing attitudes towards social issues. On average, young people tend to be more liberal on social issues such as gay marriage and drug legalization. Also, conservative buzzwords such as 'socialism' don't carry the same meaning for them as they did for their older, cold war era parents and grandparents. But, in an interesting twist, young people tend to be more fiscally conservative.

So, even though I'm not a conservative, I have a piece of advice for anyone who seeks to get young people interested in conservatism: drop the social issues but keep the money issues. You are not going to win over young people by telling them you want to keep their gay friends from being able to marry, or that you don't think women can make their own decisions about reproduction, or that pot is as bad as heroin.

This is the 21st century, so conservatives, even though they have proven to be a reliable voting bloc, you need to turn your attentions away from the interests of the evangelicals and towards those of young people, because young people are the future.