Will GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy introduce bill requiring mandatory voting for high school senior boys?

 

Graph and headline:  The Hill, 7/31/2023

In annual surveys over the last three years, roughly one-quarter of high school seniors self-identified as conservative or “very conservative” on the Monitoring the Future survey, a scholarly endeavor that dates to the 1970s. Only 13 percent of boys identified as liberal or very liberal in those years. 

The figures represent a striking shift in the political views of boys. As recently as the late 2000s, liberal boys occasionally outnumbered conservatives. Back in the Carter era, both boys and girls leaned liberal. 

Nowadays, it is girls who are drifting to the left. The share of 12th-grade girls who identified as liberal rose from 19 percent in 2012 to 30 percent in 2022. Only 12 percent of girls identified as conservative in last year’s survey, administered by the University of Michigan.

In other words, roughly 75% of high school seniors DID NOT self-identify as conservative or "very conservative" over the last three years.

What a goofy headline!