Poll Confirms That High Youth Turnout Would Doom Trump - young Americans are rejecting conservatism

[Demovictory9]

New Poll Confirms That High Youth Turnout Would Doom Trump

Republicans have long known that America’s rising generations were going to be a problem for their party. The only questions have been “How big?” and “How soon?”

The bulk of Americans born between 1981 and 1996 saw Bill Clinton preside over an age of (relative) peace and prosperity — and then George W. Bush steer their nation into failed wars and economic collapse. Zoomers, meanwhile, are coming of age amid, well, [gestures broadly at a landscape littered with foreclosed houses, police executions, pandemic breadlines, and melting ice sheets, all watched over by a billionaire Fox News addict who’s focused on his tweets].

Political science research suggests that a voter’s partisan preferences tend to be deeply informed by their evaluations of presidential performance in adolescence and early adulthood. Americans who came of age during the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon presidencies leaned Democratic for years after. Those who attained a sense of self amid Jimmy Carter’s losing battle against stagflation — and/or Ronald Reagan’s boom times — remained disproportionately Republican as they aged.

Thus, millennials and Zoomers were already likely to lean left, even if their generations hadn’t been more diverse, highly educated, and atheistic than their predecessors. But they are. And since all of those traits correlate with ideological liberalism, it’s none too surprising that the kids are all left (or, almost all left, anyway).

A new poll from Axios and SurveyMonkey-Tableau reveals that — despite our nation’s deeply ingrained regional political divisions — young Americans are rejecting conservatism from sea-to-shining sea, with only a few stray patches of red in between. In a survey of 640,328 likely voters across the country, Axios found voters under 35 backing Biden in 40 of 50 states. Young voters broke for Trump in five, and split their votes about evenly in the remaining states.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/2020-polls-young-voters-biden-trump-youth-turnout.html

[electric_blue68]

1. Didn't someone post that the youth vote was up?

[Thekaspervote]

3. It is up!

Link to tweet

?s=21

[vercetti2021]

4. We already got naysayers

Saying it's not high enough to the 2016 level. Republicans are going to kill us on Election Day voting. I tell you one thing I'm tired of hearing it

[Thekaspervote]

5. Agree! Weeks of early voting and millions of votes already cast. JMHO one day of voting isn't

Gonna cut it for the gop

[vercetti2021]

8. Plus I think we'll do well in election day votes too

I'm sorry but I don't see how Republicans are going to be able to like cut any lead or gain just from voting on one day

[GusBob]

11. I saw that naysaying

My favorite comment was: how many of them are new voters compared to 2016?

All the ones between 18-21ish

[vercetti2021]

2. Zoomers seen enough shit

I really hope they can set the country right. Gen X failed and so did us millennials.

[Progressive Jones]

7. Things got out of hand due to right wing "Boomers".

I'm a "Boomer". Born in 1959. I'm a lifelong Democratic Party supporter, and I support Progressive causes/policy.

I have seen at least half of the people I know in my general age group (not the entire generation in this conversation)
swing hard from Left to Right. It began in earnest in the 90's. To make matters worse, they moved to the right just as the GOP was moving harder to the right, and the Dems were holding close to the Center.

It amazes me. Many of these people I've known for most of my life, so I know where they came from, politically and socio-economically, and I see where they are now. We were working class urban kids. Our parents were all Democrats. 180 degree shift for many.
I also see it all around in people I don't know. Most of those MAGAs we see at rallies are from my time.

I don't know how it happened, but it did.

[Midnight Writer]

13. Yep. Same here. I'm from the hippie generation. Knew these people since we were kids.

Anti-war protesters, pot smokers, women libbers, rock and roll partiers, free love advocates, all turned into rabid Hate Radio drones.

Unfathomable to me.

[smirkymonkey]

6. Bravo young American voters!

Well done!

[onetexan]

9. The youth of this generation are really woke. My Gen Z kiddo who just graduated from college says

social media is abuzz with kids discussing social issues and actively participating in advancing their causes. So glad to hear. Given what's stacked against them - gun violence that has killed so many of their middle & highschool friends, rising price of education, student debt, climate change, an economy where it's difficult to find good jobs, a political system that is anti-middle class - they've really answered the call to activism.

[Skittles]

10. very glad to hear this

BRING IT ON!

[beachbumbob]

12. We need this demographic to be more than just aware, we need them to vote

I am hoping to be surprised but we have had this hope before. Show America that you care and this is the time to do it