Obama won every generation but Silents in 2008 and 2012. Clinton won just Millennials. There are four other generations and Millennials are not going to be "young" in the near future.
The Silent generation's electoral power has been on the downswing for years now and within a decade it will be, for a lack of a better term, marginal
(no disrespect of course).Millennials equaled Boomers in eligible voters and within a decade they will be indisputably the dominant generation in America. Democrats currently crush Republicans with this group of voters. Further, Democrats do not perform that bad with Generation X voters. Democrats tend to do pretty well with the younger half, which is the part that skews the 40-49 bloc towards Democrats
(even if coming short a little)My point is that performing well "only" with Millennials and younger gen X is highly misleading if used as a negative point and in fact the current Democratic coalition, age-wise, is still ascendant.
The problem of course for Democrats, as always, is getting young people to turnout.
To be fair, young voters have almost always had a turnout issue, at least since the 20th century. I don't expect any party to really be able to solve this issue without somehow fundamentally changing the way Americans value elections, which I don't think can be done with the way politicians currently behave. That, or maybe if they had half a billion dollar yearly budget to build a massive, permanent organizing infrastructure, though in the end you still need people to inspire them.
Outside of that, the only solution is to wait until they grow up. As generations before them, they will start voting more and more with time.
