… Two leading pollsters in the current campaign — Kellyanne Conway, who works with Trump, and Geoff Garin, who surveys for the Clinton Super-PAC — see inherent opportunities and problems for both candidates. Conway notes that Clinton was clobbered by Senator Bernie Sanders among young voters in the Democratic primaries […] Read more »
Views of Opportunity in U.S. Improve, but Lag the Past
Fifty-four percent of Americans believe it is likely that today’s young people will have a better life than their parents. While still down from 66% in early 2008, the current figure shows continued improvement from the low point of 44% in April 2011. CONT. Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Read more »
The Real ‘Trump Effect’ for Young Latinos
… The disaffection and distrust evident in so much of the American electorate festers with special ferocity among young Latinos, the fastest growing segment of the American electorate. Looking at them we can see what this campaign is doing to all of us. The laws of physics, if not elections, […] Read more »
What Sanders and Trump Understood
The most important message from this year’s tumultuous presidential primaries may be that millions of voters in both parties have grown sufficiently disenchanted with conventional political options to vote for candidates who not long ago would have been considered beyond the pale of viable choices. CONT. Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic Read more »
The Bernie Sanders Effect: Moving Millennials Left
Millennials have become more liberal since Sen. Bernie Sanders entered the presidential race, according to a new Harvard Institute of Politics poll. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday explains how young Americans’ views have changed over the past year and why it matters in Election 2016. Wall Street Journal Read more »
A Wider Ideological Gap Between More and Less Educated Adults
Two years ago, Pew Research Center found that Republicans and Democrats were more divided along ideological lines than at any point in the previous two decades. But growing ideological distance is not confined to partisanship. There are also growing ideological divisions along educational and generational lines. Highly educated adults – […] Read more »