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Unlike in previous elections, from 1968 to 1980 young voters gave much stronger support to Democratic presidential candidates than did their elders.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But by 1984 those baby boomers were not so young and their ideas were not so different. And until very recently, a political generation gap between younger and older voters was not so great.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/08\/the-widening-gap\/index.html?_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;ref=opinion&amp;_r=4&amp;\">Read the full article at nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase &#8220;generation gap&#8221; came into vogue in the 1960s as a way of describing the wide gulf in values, beliefs and lifestyles that emerged between baby boomers and their parents and grandparents. 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