Young Americans got involved in the 2020 election. Ariel Skelley/DigitalVision via Getty Images Mary Kate Cary, University of Virginia and Robert A. Strong, Washington and Lee University As Americans end one year and begin another, one of the most controversial topics of conversation will be the presidential election. We experienced […] Read more »
How Biden won: Three key voter groups in 2020
Any election victory can be seen from a variety of angles — marginal gains here, voter flips there — but the story of Joe Biden’s 2020 win, and his narrow recapturing of the northern Democratic “blue wall” states, might be best explained by vote boosts with three groups: younger voters, […] Read more »
Trump’s Really Bad Bet on Older Voters
The coming generational backlash against Donald Trump may represent only the first tremor in a much larger earthquake threatening the GOP through the 2020s. Trump is eroding the Republican Party’s position with younger voters at precisely the same time as the massively diverse Millennials and Generation Z are poised to […] Read more »
Younger voters are pessimistic about the future, down on Trump
The youngest voters in America are pessimistic about the future, worried about the coronavirus, down on President Donald Trump and positive about the Black Lives Matter movement. Those are the major findings of a new national online NBC News/Quibi poll of millennial and Generation Z voters, which was conducted after […] Read more »
Harvard Youth Poll: Election 2020
A national poll of America’s 18- to 29- year-olds released today by the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard Kennedy School found significant interest in the upcoming election with the likelihood of turning out to vote at levels not seen since the 2008 presidential election. The poll found 63% of […] Read more »
Younger voters choose Biden over Trump — but they’re not wild about either
Every election cycle, Democratic political operatives rack their brains about how to motivate a voting bloc that’s both reliably on their side of the ballot and unreliable about actually showing up: younger voters. … But what are younger voters actually telling pollsters about the election — and what do they […] Read more »