People may become more conservative and vote gop. another piece by the same writer, a week later in the new york times says new polling suggests there is not much evidence that the young are leaning more conservative, at least not yet. so what is the truth here? paw taylor, senior fellow at pew research center, author of a recently published book called, the next america, that deals exactly with the generational question we re asking. great to have you on the program to ask you a little bit about this. the commonly-held belief that young people will be liberal and they will be democrat s that true for this generation that is coming up in this political environment we re in. you know that is an afor rich is always true except when it isn t aphorism. track today s young adults in mid 20s and 30s, they re old enough to vote in a few presidential election. they are the most democratic, big d, cohort of young adults we ve seen. if you go up one generation to