The question on many Democrats’ minds is: Will young people turn out to vote in 2018? Recent survey data has liberals worried. …
To get a sense of the rate at which younger voters have historically turned out in midterm elections, I looked at data from the Current Population Survey over the past two decades. In that period, the high mark for midterm turnout among 18- to 29-year-olds was 2006, when 25.5 percent of citizens in that age group voted. That was also the last time Democrats had a successful midterm cycle. Coincidence? Maybe not. CONT.
Geoffrey Skelley, FiveThirtyEight