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How Post-Millennial Voters Could Change America

The newest voters in the 2018 midterm elections are less cynical about politics and more progressive than the young adults who came before them.
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For years, pundits have fixated on what the influx of Millennial voters will mean for American democracy. But now they’re getting old. Not the takes—though those are getting old, too—but the Millennials themselves. As that cohort ages into, the next generation of voters will become important to watch.

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