74-year-old Bernie Sanders’s remarkable dominance among young voters, in 1 chart

[Jefferson23]

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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are well on their way to becoming their parties' 2016 nominees for president.

Among young voters, though, Bernie Sanders has more votes than both of them — combined.

The below chart comes from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), which does yeoman's work in tracking the youth vote in American politics. For the purposes of this chart, "youth votes" are defined as those cast by people under 30 years old.

Thus far, Sanders has won the votes of more than 1.5 million of them. Clinton is second and Trump trails just behind, but the two front-runners combine for just 1.2 million votes — 300,000 less than Sanders alone.

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in full: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/17/74-year-old-bernie-sanderss-amazing-dominance-among-young-voters-in-1-chart/

[msongs]

1. Free stuff! a well known advertising technique nt

[democrattotheend]

2. Are you sure you're a Democrat?

Because unless I misunderstood your comment, you sounded a lot like Mitt Romney and his supporters from 2012.

[Doctor_J]

7. And every republican candidate for the last thirty years. Hillarians sound like limbeciles more

every day.

[Jefferson23]

3. Yay corruption! You stick with that. n/t

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. Your post doesn't do much to dispel the notion that Hillary supporters are content to be GOP-lite

[Lizzie Poppet]

6. Free Republic is thataway -->

And take your teahadist talking points with you, m'kay?

[Aerows]

31. "Five years old and you don't already have a hedge fund

to support your free market dreams?"

"Get busy, you lazy, can't manage to walk to kindergarten by yourself dead beat!"

[Lizzie Poppet]

36. It's like DU turned into Galt's Gulch for a bit.

Maybe they'll start calling Bernie a Kenyan...

[Aerows]

44. These kindergartners would learn more

if they were able to buy books from their wages.

If they aren't learning enough, they should take a second job to buy more books.

I'm sure half of them stroll into a school not even able to read or write!

[Lizzie Poppet]

45. And they're mooching free lunches!

SOCIALISM!!!

[Odin2005]

14. I think you are on the wrong website.

[Aerows]

28. "Limb blown off in the military?"

"You don't need health care. You need to find yourself a job where a person with less that 4 limbs can be employed. What in the hell do you need the VA for?"

[Aerows]

25. It's very difficult to parse out

what your "Liberal" avatar declares.

It looks like "Stuff without work, despite the fact that you have children" and "your children should be taken away from you if you can no longer support them despite the fact that you had them in prosperous times for your family, and "Oh well you fell on hard times and got a limb blown off in the military, why should we have to support you forever?"

Is that what your liberal avatar says, because I have a very damn hard time reading it.

[Doctor_J]

5. Too bad dws, Hillary, and her hordes of conservative supporters don't want them in the party

Could have been useful to have such a coalition going forward

[Jefferson23]

8. They may feel that way, but Hillary will do her best unless she sees she can make

significant gains from Republicans against Trump...that's if he doesn't go Third Party and
if he is the GOP nominee.

She will be smiling if he does go Third Party...too soon to say yet what will
happen on their side.

[Odin2005]

16. If Trump is Hitler then the Dems are the Weimar-era Social Democrats...

...who governed as centrists while still claiming to be left-wingers and all the while suppressing actual left-wingers.

[surrealAmerican]

18. It's okay, it's only a mistake the party will be paying for ...

... for the next thirty or forty years.

We have a rare opportunity here, and they just can't see it.

[beachbumbob]

9. I lived the disaster of 1972 and George McGovern that the same

Group of kids adopted and watched as democrats were like lemmings going over the cliff as Nixon won a landslide victory...kids are idealistic and that fails in general election..sanders hasn't faced the right wing hate machine that will destroy him....we see how sensitive sanders supporters are here in DU...

[Jefferson23]

11. We are? I guess we'll have to live with neoliberals for the remainder of my life? I don't think so.

You have to vote for what you believe in, I will do the same.

[Odin2005]

17. This is 2016, not 1972.

[HooptieWagon]

30. Yep, and really stupid to repeat mistakes from the past.

Only a corrupt self-serving party and candidate would be that short-sighted.

[Odin2005]

33. The electorate is completely different now.

Despite what the idiot pundits and the propagandists for the Third Way claim, the "moderate centrist Independent swing voter" is a myth, in our polarized political climate most "Independents" are NOT moderates, they are mainly:

1. Progressives to the LEFT of the Democratic Party

2. Libertarian-ish types who are very right-wing on economic issues but don't like the religious nuts in the GOP.

3. Assorted far-right crazies and crackpots who think the GOP is not right-wing enough.

[HooptieWagon]

34. Exactly. The center is to the left of both party establishments.

[surrealAmerican]

19. In trying to avoid a 1972 ...

... you will instead create a 1984. That's not better.

We probably could not have won either of those years, but at least we came out of one of those with our dignity and our ideals intact. 1972 did not create a large cohort of "Nixon Democrats" who never did return to the Democratic Party.

... but 1984 ... Where are those "Reagan Democrats" now?

[JackRiddler]

21. Ha ha ha. So you think Muskie would have beaten Nixon?

Please name which of the Democratic primary candidates bested by McGovern in 1972 whom you believe would have beaten Nixon that November.

I'm waiting.

[surrealAmerican]

22. That's not what I said.

I said I thought we would have lost no matter who we chose.

I'll edit my post for clarity, I don't like to be misunderstood.

[JackRiddler]

23. Oops, I misread your headline. Very sorry.

I thought I read "I'm trying to avoid" rather than "In trying to avoid..." Please forgive me.

[surrealAmerican]

24. no problem

It was a simple mistake.

[JackRiddler]

26. Yes, but an inexcusably fast trigger finger.

Sorry again.

[Art_from_Ark]

40. 1972 was an unusual year

At the beginning of the year, the Vietnam War was still going.
McGovern was running as the anti-war candidate. Humphrey actually got a few more primary votes than McGovern, though.
That was the first presidential election in which 18-to-20-year-olds would be voting.

Then came the Summer of '72 (brought to you by that great new group, The Sound Effects):

Nixon's "plumbers" break into Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel. While bits and pieces of the break-in come out in the news, most voters don't assign much to the story.

McGovern wins the nomination at the Democratic National Convention, but before McGovern speaks, about 30 speakers offer alternatives to McGovern's choice of Missouri Senator Thomas Eagleton as running mate. But McGovern sticks with Eagleton. That is, until it comes to light that Eagleton had been undergoing psychiatric treatment. McGovern then chooses Sargent Shriver, a good man in all respects, who should have been McGovern's first choice.

Meanwhile, the Paris Peace Talks are going ahead to discuss the future of American involvement in the Vietnam War. It looks as though the US will be leaving Vietnam in the near future.

Then comes the October Surprise-- two weeks before the election, Nixon and Henry Kissinger announce plans for withdrawing American forces from Vietnam, thus taking away McGovern's main issue and in the process winning a lot of votes from the youngest voters, who no longer have to worry about being drafted to fight in an unpopular war.

[JackRiddler]

42. Yes to all that.

It was also an astoundingly reactionary moment for the majority in this country.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

20. I lived through the disaster of 1968 when the moderates gave us Humpty and Nixon.

[azurnoir]

10. it'll be interesting watching the Hillary camp attempt to court this voting block if she claims the

nomination

[Jefferson23]

12. Depending on who the Republican nominee will be, she may feel she doesn't need

millennials by much of a percent. She has some of her own now..so we'll see.
Clinton is always happy to have a reason to go rightward.

[azurnoir]

13. I think she might be mistaken about that though and I'm not sure it'll matter all that much who

the republicans nominate because as I said on another thread it was millenials who invented the name Camp Weathervane

[Jefferson23]

15. Could be. I am watching the Republicans, they're in complete chaos..so we'll see. n/t

[JackRiddler]

43. She won't court no one.

She'll run to the right - she'll pander, as we've seen with the Nancy Reagan incident - and she'll find herself attacked from "the left" by Trump himself as he talks about the Iraq war vote and whatever else works - he'll even do single-payer rhetoric, once he has the nomination. The fucker will say anything, as we know.

[Trust Buster]

27. College debt relief is very appealing. Just not to a Republican-controlled Congress.

[Jefferson23]

29. Have you checked out Debbie Wasserman Schultz on payday lending? She was forced

to do that..is that where we're at now? Republicans made her do it?

Not about college loans, but it indicates the stench of neoliberalism.

[Trust Buster]

32. I think both Hillary and Sanders supporters have had it with her. In that we agree.

[Jefferson23]

35. Hopefully she will lose her seat to the Democrat Tim Canova. n/t

[Trust Buster]

37. I hope that too. She doesn't have the smarts to be DNC Chairman.

[Jefferson23]

38. Yes, she needs to go. n/t

[seabeyond]

39. Pied Piper of our youth.... Nt.

[H2O Man]

41. Recommended.

Thank you.

[Jefferson23]

46. You're very welcome. Heck of a contrast, isn't...great supporters and that will increase. n/t

[hack89]

47. His remarkable electoral weakness in one chart as well. nt

[Jefferson23]

48. Uh huh..thanks for stopping by. n/t

[hack89]

49. Dominating the demographic least likely to actually vote

is not the best foundation for a successful campaign. Alienating POC also doesn't help.

[workinclasszero]

50. Yup

It was a fatal flaw from day one.

[Jefferson23]

51. I'll try to explain this again..this is a political movement and if not for millennials he

would not be where he is. He was not expected to win and with millions of
voters helping him has surpassed our expectations. Despite the odds we
will continue to fight for every vote and get as many people involved as
we can. Understand now? To suggest millennials have hurt him is absurd.

He declared a year ago, Hillary has been running and raising money forever.

[hack89]

52. They did not hurt him - they were simply not enough

a political movement dominated by young white people is not going to change much. Hillary's diverse coalition is the reason she is winning - it includes all Democrats and not a small segment.

[Jefferson23]

53. They're not all white, they're not all young and you seem to keep missing the point.

YOUR candidate has all the advantages and we're doing better than expected.

We know the odds, your side reminds us every day since he announced.

[hack89]

54. The voting results say otherwise

it doesn't matter if he is doing better than expected. He is still losing. And since his supporters have not demonstrated significant clout at the ballot box the revolution will end at the convention. Bernie will give a nice speech, endorse Hillary and campaign for her as all good Democrats are expected to do.

[Jefferson23]

56. I see my explanation went right over head...this is a political movement...we are in it for

the long game. If we win the nomination that would be a political coup of epic proportions, but
if we don't, which we were never expected to do, we're not going away..understand, now?

The significant clout has ALREADY been demonstrated. We increase in numbers over the
next 8 years..so no worries.

[hack89]

57. So when Bernie endorses and campaigns for Hillary

how many supporters will he lose? What happens when it becomes clear he has always been a member of the establishment?

[Jefferson23]

58. I have no idea he'll lose any, people vote for who they want to regardless of what

Sanders says or does. The establishment are those who take special interest money and
who profit from it electorally...that is not Sanders.

The politics about this has less to do with Hillary the person than you might think.
For obvious reasons she is their representative of it in this election cycle.

[Onlooker]

55. Wow, awesome Democratic dominance

Even if Hillary loses 20% of the Sanders supporters, she'll still lead by 25% among millennials.

[amborin]

59. knr