The current election will, mercifully, come to an end on November 8th. But its repercussions will be felt for a very long time, and, for the Republican party, they could be devastating. That’s the implication of new research, which describes “the emergence of a decisive Democratic advantage” among Americans who […] Read more »
Clinton And Trump Are Losing A Lot Of Young Voters
… Clinton is earning 41 percent, on average, with young voters. In both 2008 and 2012, by contrast, Barack Obama won at least 60 percent of these voters, according to the American National Election Studies (ANES). But it’s not that younger voters like Trump. Quite the opposite: Only 20 percent […] Read more »
Trump’s good political timing: Younger Americans are shunning democracy
… Many of us in the media have portrayed Trump as a uniquely dangerous threat to democracy, an aspiring strongman with little regard for checks on executive power by other branches of government, the media or the Constitution. And many of us are shocked that Trump, through charisma alone, has […] Read more »
Police violence a rising concern for Millennials, new poll shows
In the wake of highly publicized incidents of police shootings of African Americans this year, members of the Millennial generation increasingly identify police brutality and criminal-justice reform as a top priority for the next president. CONT. Susan Page & Fernanda Crescente, USA Today Read more »
Young voters flee Donald Trump in what may be historic trouncing, poll shows
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is consolidating the support of the Millennials who fueled Bernie Sanders’ challenge during the primaries, a new USA TODAY/Rock the Vote Poll finds, as Republican Donald Trump heads toward the worst showing among younger voters in modern American history. CONT. Susan Page & Fernanda Crescente, […] Read more »
For millennial voters, the Clinton vs. Trump choice ‘feels like a joke’
… Polling suggests that the millennial generation will act much the same this November as it did four and eight years ago — by voting heavily for the Democratic nominee, though with a considerable share supporting a third-party candidate. But in interviews this past week with more than 70 young […] Read more »