At the gym this week, my iPod shuffled to a heavy metal song from the 1980s, pushing me through my third mile with the reminder that “I never played by the rules/I never really cared.”

Then I wondered if Skid Row’s “Youth Gone Wild” wasn’t exactly an age-appropriate anthem for a 36-year-old. If Sebastian Bach is over the hill, could the rest of Generation X be far behind?

Turns out the young turks are taking politics by storm. The under-50 crowd seems to be outpacing its older opponents from coast to coast.

Read more at The Hill.

LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) — The 2010 Census is expected to find that 309 million people live in the United States. But one person will be missing: the average American.

“The concept of an ‘average American’ is gone, probably forever,” demographics expert Peter Francese writes in 2010 America, a new Ad Age white paper. “The average American has been replaced by a complex, multidimensional society that defies simplistic labeling.”

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