Hillary Clinton Expands Lead Among Younger Voters

[highplainsdem]

Source: WSJ

Hillary Clinton has expanded her lead over Republican rival Donald Trump to 28 percentage points among voters younger than 30, according to a new survey by the Harvard Institute of Politics that signals trouble ahead for Republicans with this crucial voting bloc.

The national survey, released Wednesday, found that Mrs. Clinton is backed by 49% of likely voters aged 18 to 29, compared with 21% for Mr. Trump, 14% for Libertarian Gary Johnson and 5% for Green Party candidate Jill Stein.

The poll suggests Mr. Trump could set back GOP efforts to improve its standing with millennials, a voting bloc that is about to surpass baby boomers as the largest generation of eligible voters. In Harvard’s October 2012 survey, GOP nominee Mitt Romney trailed President Barack Obama, who was a magnet for young voters, by just 19 points among those under 30, 55% to 36%.

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The poll found Mrs. Clinton’s dominance among young voters extended to all subgroups—besides Republicans—even among young white voters who in 2012 had favored Mr. Romney by 4 points. She also led Mr. Trump among young women and voters without a college degree by wider margins than Mr. Obama led Mr. Romney in 2012. However, her lead with young Hispanics is narrower than Mr. Obama’s, and among blacks, her lead is the same as his.

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[dembotoz]

1. about damn time

[elmac]

2. That's good news

in Michigan young voter registration just hit an all time high, record.

[onehandle]

3. The final numbers for Perpetually Uninformed Johnson and Tofu Palin will be far, far less than that.

Even amongst youth.

[Sunlei]

4. This is very good news. In not to long some of these 18 to 30s are our future Presidents!

[sofa king]

5. It's what I keep saying:

The kids these days are the best informed voters in several generations because they actually read and write as a primary form of entertainment.

As a result, they're not interested in being spoon-fed the crap that passes for television "news," but instead trade information on the subjects that interest them. It's difficult to misinform them because when they repeat that misinformation they are quickly rebuffed by their better-informed friends. Instead of a stupidity echo chamber, which is what AM radio and Fox News serves as, America's youth live in an environment where bullshit is quickly identified and ridiculed.

Better informed voters overwhelmingly support Democratic candidates, because better informed voters make wiser choices. And thank Elvis for that, because America needs a generation of voters capable of evaluating their own information instead of being brainwashed into stupid beliefs.