Review of The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading America (and How Republicans Can Keep Up) by Kristen Soltis Anderson … “It’s no secret that the GOP has had a hard time winning over the millennial generation — the newest voters in the electorate — and that this has made […] Read more »
Why Hillary is asking America to see her candidacy as ‘historic’
In her presidential campaign kick-off speech and in a subsequent interview with Iowa media, Hillary Clinton leaned pretty hard into the notion that electing her president would represent a major historical breakthrough. … But it probably isn’t an accident that she noted that she’d be the first female president as […] Read more »
Millennials and Political News
When it comes to where younger Americans get news about politics and government, social media look to be the local TV of the Millennial generation. About six-in-ten online Millennials (61%) report getting political news on Facebook in a given week, a much larger percentage than turn to any other news […] Read more »
How student debt became a presidential campaign issue
The $1.3 trillion burden of student debt is becoming an issue in the 2016 presidential campaign as candidates court the millions of Americans grappling with the high cost of college. … Democratic pollster Geoff Garin, who worked on Clinton’s 2008 campaign, said he thinks the issue of student debt is […] Read more »
Millennials Most Trusting on Safety of Personal Information
In spite of high-visibility data breaches, 44% of millennials in the United States believe that their personal information is kept private “all” or “most of the time” by the businesses or companies they do business with. This is the highest of all major U.S. generational groups. CONT. John Fleming, Gallup Read more »
Youth still favor Democrats, Clinton, but margins tighten
Nearly half of young American voters do not have confidence in the justice system, according to a new Harvard survey of millennials. The poll of 18-29 year olds released Wednesday by Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP) found an even 49%-49% split among the age group on the question of the […] Read more »