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Poll: Youngest Americans More Pro-Life on Abortion Than Baby Boomers
LifeNews.com ^ | January 22, 2010 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 01/22/2010 10:29:28 AM PST by julieee

Poll: Youngest Americans More Pro-Life on Abortion Than Baby Boomers

Washington, DC -- As hundreds of thousands of pro-life Americans young and old participate in the March for Life in Washington today, a new poll finds most marchers will likely be from the millennial generation or Generation X. The most recent Marist survey finds them the most pro-life on abortion.

http://www.LifeNews.com/nat5914.html

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; babyboomer; cultureoflife; generationy; marchforlife; poll; trends
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To: ansel12; CloudsofFlight
One thing they could do, is start using boomers as an example of military service, maybe they could get the males of their generation and the younger ones to start stepping up and enlisting in larger numbers that the post boomer men do.

That was meant to say THAN the post boomer men do.(enlist)

The boomers were a great generation of warriors and it would serve our nation well if the younger generations of men strove to be like them when it comes to enlisting for military service.

21 posted on 01/22/2010 11:41:19 AM PST by ansel12 (anti SoCon. Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative loser.)
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To: ansel12

Do you not know how many of our people are signing up for military service in GenX?! They are doing more and more, and then some! There are foolhardy politicians in Washington sending our young people in harm’s way (and yes, most are boomers in DC) without a clear plan. Yet there are those who gladly step up and VOLUNTEER no matter what the economy looks like, to serve. Don’t tell me those from my generation aren’t stepping up.


22 posted on 01/22/2010 4:23:24 PM PST by CloudsofFlight
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To: CloudsofFlight

As a generation, they are not stepping up.

My son is an Xer and he pulled his hitch with the 10th Mountain division, but he is among the few young men of these younger generations to enlist.

The military is very small now and our population is very large, yet we have to take females, single moms, and even people (including grandmothers) up to 42 years of age to make up the shortfalls.

Almost nine and half million boomers served, and women were not allowed to exceed 2% of the military manpower (if they ever reached that), boomers are a warrior generation.


23 posted on 01/22/2010 4:33:40 PM PST by ansel12 (anti SoCon. Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative loser.)
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It was the 18-29 year olds and generation x that put Obama in the White House.


Political power is split between the Boomers and Gen-Y (late children of the Boomers). Gen-X is so small compared to those groups that we are really quite irrelevant from a statistical standpoint. That being said the youth always vote for idealistic visions, not realizing that most of it is wishful thinking and smoke and mirrors. The reason Obama really won the election is the conservative base did not turn out because they were delivering a message to the RNC and the RINO’s (ala McCain) that they would no longer go along to get along.

For pro-lifers, time is on our side. As Gen-Y becomes the predominant demographic in our country we should start heading in the pro-life direction.


24 posted on 01/24/2010 9:46:40 PM PST by Gen-X-Dad
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That being said the youth always vote for idealistic visions, not realizing that most of it is wishful thinking and smoke and mirrors.

You just read in that same post that in 1972, the 18-29 year olds voted for Richard Nixon, and that was with the draft and the Vietnam war going on. There was no reason for that age group to vote 66% for Obama when the democrat only got 46% of their vote in 1972.

Republican turnout in 2008 was only 1.3% less than it was in 2004, it does not account for the 10 million vote difference, boomer Sarah Palin seems to have brought out most of the conservatives that McCain would have lost.

The facts on the ground question whether Generation Y will vote prolife, they would have to make a sudden dramatic reversal of how they currently identify politically to do that, also many of them are Catholic and Catholics as a group. almost always vote pro abortion.

25 posted on 01/24/2010 10:14:23 PM PST by ansel12 (anti SoCon. Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative loser.)
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