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Pew finds young Republicans more likely to be social liberals
by Sam Rolley   March 2, 2015

 
The youngest members of the GOP continue marching to a more libertarian drum as new polling data shows a majority, nationwide, supports marijuana legalization and same sex marriage.

According to polling data from Pew, 63 percent of Republicans who fall into the Millennial (born 1981 to '96) demographic say that marijuana use should be legal in the United States. That's compared to 35 percent who say it should remain illegal at the federal level.

While the number of Republican Millennials who support marijuana legalization is high, it's still three percentage points lower than the number of their Democratic contemporaries favoring legalization.

According to Pew, a softer stance on marijuana from Millennials in the GOP could have electoral implications in 2016.

"The debate over marijuana . comes ahead of the 2016 presidential election, when both political parties are fighting over the coveted Millennial vote as this group of eligible voters swells in size, even if its members do not consistently show up on Election Day," Pew noted.

But it isn't just marijuana where younger Republicans are veering away from the party's establishment messaging- they're more socially liberal in general.

For instance, Millennials are also the only group in the GOP who support same-sex marriage by a majority (58 percent).

The Pew report came as attendees of the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., noticed (yet again) that the face of conservatism slowly appears to be getting more youthful and libertarian.

And that, as Reason notes in a video from this year's event, is creating a divide within the GOP that won't soon go away.

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