Did Tipper and Lieberman hurt Gore with young voters?

[One Term Floridian]

So much; frankly unavoidable even without those two since Gore was a pretty stiff dude himself. W was clearly the last appealing Republican nominee for young people, especially in 2000.

Gore shouldn’t have picked Lieberman and doubled down on this anti-youth persona, however. Kerry/Edwards did a much better job appealing to youths and the exit polling tends to show this too.

[One Term Floridian]

So much; frankly unavoidable even without those two since Gore was a pretty stiff dude himself. W was clearly the last appealing Republican nominee for young people, especially in 2000.

Gore shouldn’t have picked Lieberman and doubled down on this anti-youth persona, however. Kerry/Edwards did a much better job appealing to youths and the exit polling tends to show this too.

At least Bush was sort of libertarian on video games and other youth issues. There is a strain of 'boys will be boys' sentiment in the Republican party, while there is a nanny state Karen strain in the Democratic side.

Apparently Bush used this issue to fundraise from Hollywood executives. https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/30/us/california-here-bush-comes-a-moderate-on-immigration-and-racial-quotas.html “Appealing to entertainment executives who believe that President Clinton and Mr. Gore unfairly fault Hollywood for violence, Mr. Bush said: ''All of us need to work together to change the culture. One industry alone does not bear all the brunt.''”

Wow what a far cry from today’s muh cancel culture schtick

[One Term Floridian]

So much; frankly unavoidable even without those two since Gore was a pretty stiff dude himself. W was clearly the last appealing Republican nominee for young people, especially in 2000.

Gore shouldn’t have picked Lieberman and doubled down on this anti-youth persona, however. Kerry/Edwards did a much better job appealing to youths and the exit polling tends to show this too.

At least Bush was sort of libertarian on video games and other youth issues. There is a strain of 'boys will be boys' sentiment in the Republican party, while there is a nanny state Karen strain in the Democratic side.

Apparently Bush used this issue to fundraise from Hollywood executives. https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/30/us/california-here-bush-comes-a-moderate-on-immigration-and-racial-quotas.html “Appealing to entertainment executives who believe that President Clinton and Mr. Gore unfairly fault Hollywood for violence, Mr. Bush said: ''All of us need to work together to change the culture. One industry alone does not bear all the brunt.''”

Wow what a far cry from today’s muh cancel culture schtick

Bush ran away from the “culture warriors” in 2000. He even said, “Gays are people too” and “Too often, on social issues, my party has painted an image of America slouching toward Gomorrah”.

He really was more above the fray than we probably gave him credit for back in the day. Still a terrible president imo but we could have done worse. And have done worse. Lol