Engaging and mobilizing young African Americans will be key to the future success of the Democratic Party. To that end, Garin-Hart-Yang, Brossard Research, and Global Strategy Group conducted a research project in September/October 2017 among African-American Millennial mobilization targets, on behalf of Priorities USA and Color of Change. The research […] Read more »
Millennials don’t like Trump. Here’s how they say he could win them over.
A recent NBC News/GenForward poll found that, overall, young Americans don’t like what Trump has done as president so far. Half think he’ll go down in history as a poor president, and his bad marks only get worse when it comes to millennials of color. But all hope may not […] Read more »
Why 41% of white millennials voted for Trump
In the year since Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, many have continued to debate what motivated those who voted for him. We wanted to understand Trump voters among millennials, the generation that will make up the largest share of the voting-eligible population in the upcoming 2018 […] Read more »
Two-thirds of youth fearful about America’s future, prefer Democratic control of Congress, Harvard youth poll finds
A new national poll of America’s 18- to 29-year-olds by Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the Kennedy School of Government, finds that two-thirds of young Americans (67%) are more fearful than hopeful about America’s future. Less than one year before the 2018 midterm elections, likely young American voters […] Read more »
The Millennials are coming
Tuesday, November 7th, 2017, was a big night for Democrats. Democrats won a lot of races they were not expected to win, especially in the well-educated suburbs that were supposed to make the difference for Hillary Clinton last year, but didn’t. One thing that stuck out to me, though, was […] Read more »
Millennial poll: Is Trump’s presidency living up to expectations?
President Donald Trump is performing about as expected in his first year of office for 44 percent of millennials, according to results from a new NBC News/GenForward survey. Forty-five percent say his presidency has been worse than anticipated, while just 8 percent said he is doing better. But for millennials […] Read more »