If you look at polling on the issues of God, Gays and Guns, the country is moving to the Dem side.
God and Guns both still have overwhelming majorities, and the movement on Guns has been very tepid.if you look at
polling 63% of people want to restrict "high capacity magazines" more and the numbers are similar for so-called assault rifles and various other gun control measures. in fact virtually every restriction short of banning handguns has majority support. americans are far more anti-gun than i would like. this is one of the few issues which i'm somewhat grateful for our corrupt lobbying system on otherwise there would be even more erosion than there has been in terms of the 2nd amendment.
actually neither of those things is true. studies show that people tend to retain the same voting patterns that they did in roughly their mid 20s. perhaps relative to the rest of the population their attitudes might not adjust as fast. nonetheless if you look at say, gen x they've always trended more republican than the national average and this voting pattern has persisted into middle age. as far as studies go we aren't really that noticeably different from the average as far as issues like abortion and same sex marriage go. again, this is not a political trend i like (story of the last 200 years) but it is what it is.
