Young people are planning to turn out the vote in 2016. And they have a clear choice at this point about who they want to be the nation’s next president. Those are some of the highlights from Fusion’s Massive Millennial Poll, which surveyed 1000 people aged 18-34 about everything from […] Read more »
Baby Boomers More Likely to Identify as Conservative
Older generations of Americans are much more likely to describe their political views as conservative than as liberal. This includes the large baby boom generation, of whom 44% identified as conservative and 21% as liberal last year. That 23-percentage-point conservative advantage is less than the 31-point edge for the older […] Read more »
The young and the newsless
I am getting old. I know that because I’m complaining about the young. They just don’t pay attention to news about politics and public affairs. If we thought earlier generations were out of touch with what was happening at home and abroad (and anyone who has watched a focus group […] Read more »
Obama Loses Support Among White Millennials
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 »