A midterm election has come and gone, and now begins a new round of speculation about whether the Democrats can remobilize young and nonwhite voters in 2016. The question hinges on how much of the growing nonwhite share of the electorate is the result of President Obama’s unique appeal. CONT. […] Read more »
Likely Millennial Voters Up For Grabs
A new national poll of America’s 18- to 29- year-olds by Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, finds slightly more than half (51%) of young Americans who say they will “definitely be voting” in November prefer a Republican-run Congress with 47 percent […] Read more »
Why Polls Tend to Undercount Democrats
Polls show that the Republicans have an advantage in the fight for control of the Senate. They lead in enough states to win control, and they have additional opportunities in North Carolina and New Hampshire to make up for potential upsets. As Election Day nears, Democratic hopes increasingly hinge on […] Read more »
When Obama Lost White Millennials
In recent weeks, President Obama has taken to making direct appeals to young voters in an effort to raise the prospects of Democratic candidates around the country. It’s a strategy that would appear at the outset to hold some promise. … However, the generational affinity that millennials demonstrate towards the […] Read more »
Fusion’s Massive Millennial Poll
Millennial voters Hillary and Paul Ryan for 2016. In the midterm elections, the majority will give Republican candidates a . And in the wake of Ferguson, a majority of young voters oppose the militarization of . Those are some of the findings in Fusion’s first-ever Massive Millennial Poll which surveyed 1200 likely voters […] Read more »
The GOP’s Millennial problem runs deep
The Republican Party’s struggles in appealing to young people have been well documented. And even those Millennials who do identify as Republicans or lean toward the GOP are decidedly less conservative than older Republicans. CONT. Jocelyn Kiley & Michael Dimock, Pew Read more »