Young people are the future of politics – or at least, they should be.
In the US, people aged 39 and younger – millennials and Generation Z – now make up more than a third of eligible voters. They’re considered more ethnically diverse, and liberal, than older generations, and experts say they could make a significant impact on this year’s elections. Except younger voters, as a cohort, consistently turn out in lower numbers than older generations. …
John Della Volpe, the director of polling at Harvard Kennedy School, has led surveys on American youth voters since 2000. He says that based on exit polling data, “there is credible evidence to suggest that the youth vote is flat to down in most states… young people are just not as enthusiastic as many of us expected them to be”.
So why aren’t more young people voting in the Democratic primaries – and what sort of an impact would this have on November’s presidential elections? CONT.
Helier Cheung, BBC News