So having "skin in the game" made the draft age people vote pro-war, and pro-Republican? Did you take note that the under 30 age group was always the most pro-Vietnam?
You keep talking about 18 to 21, why is that, you don't have any numbers for them, that is an incredibly thin slice to find numbers for, and you were totally wrong about the youth vote turn out in 1972, it was the highest in history, contrary to you thinking they did not show up.
The 18 to 24 year old vote (which we do have data for)in 1972 was over 50% also, again, the highest for that age group in our history.
One more time: 1972 was an anomaly. It was one year after ratification of the XXVI Amendment, the Vietnam conflict was hot, and the draft was quite alive.
McGovern’s one-note campaign made McCain ‘08 look like the textbook model for electoral success. Not to mention that his chosen VP candidate had to withdraw late in the game. That election, in fact, marked a massive shift in the Democrat party from merely liberal to the radical left we see today.
Your definition of the ‘youth’ vote and mine seems to be creating a difference of opinion. In my view, until @ 25, that’s the ‘youth’ vote. By 25, most have gotten a job, are paying taxes, and many then were married. Those circumstances make one look at politics entirely differently than an 18-22 year old who’s still a student with dad and mom picking up the tab. So putting an 18 year old and a 29 year old in the same category makes no sense to me. A working 27 year old has more in common with a 40 year old than an 18 year old.
You keep posting all these figures for the 18-29 set without citing a source. For all anyone knows, the information was gathered using the same methodology as exit polling done in Florida in 2000. Viz. your post was the first time I’d ever heard of the 60s-70s youth favoring the Vietnam conflict. By ‘72, as I recall, it enjoyed precious little support from any demographic and Nixon/Kissinger were making it clear that if reelected he would end that conflict.