President Barack Obama’s job approval rating in 2014 among white 18- to 29-year-olds is 34%, three points higher than among whites aged 30 and older. This is the narrowest approval gap between the president’s previously strong support base of white millennials and older white Americans since Obama took office. CONT. […] Read more »
How Democrats Owe Their Midterm Losses to Student Loans
… Younger voters did not show up on Election Day in the numbers necessary to avoid a Republican wave, and the younger voters who did show were not nearly as likely to vote for Democrats as they had been in years past. … One of Democrats’ struggles is that voters […] Read more »
Are Democrats Losing the Youth Vote?
ONCE again, the youth vote went firmly Democratic in last week’s election — but the actual numbers, combined with some telling survey results, indicate that the party’s grip on the young may be loosening. … When it comes to young voters, liberal politicians are victims of their culture-war success. They […] Read more »
Likely Millennial Voters Up For Grabs
A new national poll of America’s 18- to 29- year-olds by Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, finds slightly more than half (51%) of young Americans who say they will “definitely be voting” in November prefer a Republican-run Congress with 47 percent […] Read more »
When Obama Lost White Millennials
In recent weeks, President Obama has taken to making direct appeals to young voters in an effort to raise the prospects of Democratic candidates around the country. It’s a strategy that would appear at the outset to hold some promise. … However, the generational affinity that millennials demonstrate towards the […] Read more »
Fusion’s Massive Millennial Poll
Millennial voters Hillary and Paul Ryan for 2016. In the midterm elections, the majority will give Republican candidates a . And in the wake of Ferguson, a majority of young voters oppose the militarization of . Those are some of the findings in Fusion’s first-ever Massive Millennial Poll which surveyed 1200 likely voters […] Read more »