To almost anyone under the age of 30, all of this is similar to watching cigarette executives insist that smoking isn't harmful.
"Younger voters get interested when they can choose sides," says Rasky, and the Republicans are going to make that very easy. "You give them the opportunity, they'll talk about drilling for oil, and how global warming isn't really happening." To Millennials, that rhetoric makes the GOP nothing more than obnoxious gas.
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