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For almost two decades, the nation has held its breath, waiting for the baby boom to make its mark in politics. It hasn’t happened yet. Ever since Eugene McCarthy ran in the Presidential primaries of 1968—the year that the oldest baby boomer turned 22—the country has expected more out of the baby boom than it cared to give. In the election of 1972, when the oldest baby boomer was 26, all eyes were on George McGovern—could he pull it off with the baby boom’s help? But the baby boom didn’t deliver.
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U.S. Bureau of the Census, “Voting and Registration in the Election of November 1984 (Advance Report),” Current Population Reports, Series P-20, No. 397, January 1985, Table 1.
Jane Newitt, “The Decade of the Young Voter,” American Demographics, September 1984, p. 19.
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Lee Atwater quoted in David Boaz, ed., Left, Right and Baby Boom ( Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 1986 ), p. 35.
Pat Caddell quoted in David Boaz, ed., Left, Right and Baby Boom ( Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 1986 ), pp. 48–49.
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Tom W. Smith, “America’s Religious Mosaic,” American Demographics, June 1984, pp. 18–23.
Paul D. Kleppner quoted in David Boaz, ed., Left, Right and Baby Boom ( Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 1986 ), p. 116.
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Russell, C. (1987). The New Believers. In: 100 Predictions for the Baby Boom. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3468-0_6
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