At this point the ancient people are the most likely to flip if certain lines are crossed. They were there before the current politics and don't have a future to risk. Plus decades of ego.
The young guys aren't even going to consider voting with dems no matter what the situation. They all recently went into office being onboard with everything.
Ipods were extremely out of my price range as a teen in poverty. MDs were selling at deep discount, and the MP3 players in stores were 8-32 MB. And I wasn't going to get money for the 32 if 8 was there and nobody around me understood the limitations of only holding 3 songs.
Honestly I forgot that iPods existed back then because the price was nowhere near realistic. It probably would have been preferable to MD though if money didn't matter.