Comments on: Obama creates a Lost Generation

By: steveegg

steveegg — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:45:36 +0000

Now, do I believe a dumbshit that can't do math (79.1% of those born in 1977 were still only 30 years old when Shoebox posted this), or do I believe those that actually define the generations? Oops; even by the narrower definition, Gen Y is 1978-1989. Now, fuck off.

By: John Smith

John Smith — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:34:40 +0000

I’m guessing by the response Shoebox is a Generation Y’er, because he has NOT done his own homework, I have. I have the birthrates from 1920 to 2002, and the rate goes from 15% in the early 70’s down to 14% in the mid 70’s, back to 15% in late 70’s, and 16% onward 1979 to 1993. Now, if you strictly go by birthrate, which is how they define the baby boomers, Generation Y is 1979 to 1993! LEARN TO DO SOME MATH SHOEBOX!!!

By: Shoebox

Shoebox — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:41:20 +0000

Well, I guess better late to the party than not at all John!

You may want to do your own homework:

“There is no consensus over the exact birth dates that define Gen Y, also known by some as echo boomers and millennials. But the broadest definition generally includes the more than 70 million Americans born 1977 to 2002. Generation X was born roughly 1965 to 1976.
Narrower definitions put Gen Yers as those ages 16 to 27, born from 1978 to 1989. This narrower view is based on the thinking that as the pace of change in society accelerates, the time frame of a generation gets shorter.”

As to my math skills, I did not say that only up to 30 year olds were in this group, I said they were included in the group. You might have figured that last one out if you had done some math and realized that 18 year olds would have had to have been born before 1996…I was speaking of a subset of voters that were segmented by pollsters.

Thanks for plyaing…bye bye now!

By: John Smith

John Smith — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:57:36 +0000

Wow, people are stupid today. Okay, first off, if you were born in 1977, and it’s now 2008, you’re 31, NOT 30! If you’re 30 in 2008, you were born in 1978! By the way, Generation Y is 1979 to 1994, and the author of this page REALLY needs to learn basic Math, AND needs to do some research BEFORE they write their articles on generations!

By: TBJade

TBJade — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:50:02 +0000

Not only is Obama constantly professing need and entitlement, which are indeed so attractive to millennials, but this vague message of hope gets me every time.

I read this article written by this high school student recently (Posted here wwww.millennialpointofview.com) which basically proves what I have suspected of many teens and twenty-somethings. Voting for Obama because he is seen as “cool” and because he is giving them a vague sense of “hope!!”

By: Shoebox

Shoebox — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:13:20 +0000

Interesting Electionwatcher. I’m a member of GenJones but I had never heard of it before this. Looking into it, the group seems to be defined by unfulfilled expectations. I guess that’s probably true of Obama and his ilk but it doesn’t come close to describing the folks I know from that time frame. Most of those folks are pretty solid acheivers (and I don’t mean just $). In many ways I see these folks as having accomplished more (setting WWII aside) than thier parent’s generation.

At any rate, my point wasn’t that O was a Y generation, rather that he created a construct where the Y’s felt at home…maybe the unfulfilled expectations along with “someone’s always keeping them down” are the two things O and the Y’s do have in common.

By: ElectionWatcher

ElectionWatcher — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:55:10 +0000

Obama hasn’t created a Lost Generation; Obama is part of a Lost Generation between the Boomers and Xers.

There is a growing consensus in the media, and among experts, that Obama is not a Boomer, nor an Xer, but instead is a member of Generation Jones (born 1954-1965, the heretofore lost generation between the Boomers and Xers).

Just in the last month or so, several top media outlets, including The New York Times, Newsweek Magazine, and NBC, have all made the argument that Obama is specifically part of Generation Jones. I also heard a panel of generations experts recently on a national radio show discussing this specific issue, and four of the five experts conlcuded that Obama is, in fact, a GenerationJoneser"¦that his bio and political worldview closely match the GenJones archetype.