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On 9/18/2014 Marp2 said:

On 9/18/2014 Cakers1 said:

terrier: From what I've read the Scots are not thrilled with having them there in the first place. Where will they be moved to?? It's not just nuclear power; it's nuclear weapons, too.

And seriously, found, it's an important question - the younger generation is more against them than for them- it's an issue right up there with currency, etc.

Which also leads to another question - was the voting age lowered to tilt the scales in favor of secession??

Excerpt from http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/09/17/349085178/for-scotlands-16-year-olds-the-first-vote-wi...

Scotland's government declared two years ago that the voting age would be lowered from 18 to 16 for this referendum. At the time, most everyone thought a solid majority of the newest and youngest voters would help the independence campaign.

But Jan Eichhorn, a professor of social policy at the University of Edinburgh, says that assumption was wrong on several levels.

"The 16-, 17-year-olds are under 3 percent of the vote. So they were never going to be vote decisive," he says.

Eichhorn has conducted surveys of Scottish teenagers, and his findings on their political views defied expectations: The 16- and 17-year-olds are on average slightly less likely than adults to vote for independence.

Marp: Thank you. I was wondering if the age would make a difference.