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Gen Z Is Politically Old Before Its Time
There’s long been a gender gap in how older voters cast their ballots. Now the youngest voters show a similar split.
Probably not how their girlfriends voted.
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Men and women have long behaved differently in the political realm, with the former more inclined to vote for Republicans and the latter more likely to support Democrats. But significantly, these differences did not historically apply to 18-to-29-year-olds. For many years, both younger men and women have leaned decidedly left.
No longer. The latest Harvard Youth Poll, the gold standard for studying younger voters, is the most recent poll to make clear there are now distinct political differences separating men and women ages 18–29.