Young voters flee Donald Trump in what may be historic trouncing, poll shows

[KMOD]

WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is consolidating the support of the Millennials who fueled Bernie Sanders' challenge during the primaries, a new USA TODAY/Rock the Vote Poll finds, as Republican Donald Trump heads toward the worst showing among younger voters in modern American history.

The survey shows Clinton trouncing Trump 56%-20% among those under 35, though she has failed so far to generate the levels of enthusiasm Sanders did — and the high turn-out that can signal — among Millennials.

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In the new survey, half of those under 35 say they identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party; just 20% identify with or lean toward the Republican Party. Seventeen percent are independents, and another 12% either identify with another party or don't know.

Trump's weakness among younger voters is unprecedented, lower even than the 32% of the vote that the Gallup Organization calculates Richard Nixon received among 18-to-29-year-old voters in 1972, an era of youthful protests against the Vietnam War.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/08/14/donald-trump-historic-trouncing-among-younger-voters-hillary-clinton-president-poll/88666746/

Pretty good article. There's much more polling data at the link.

[klook]

1. Trump doing worse with young voters than Nixon!

Now that is historic. It'll be the greatest loss ever, the biggest loss. Believe me!

[Johnny2X2X]

2. Bigly

He will lose bigly.

[LeftRant]

3. Tremendous

Your reply is tremendous!

[Still In Wisconsin]

7. And YOUR reply is...

unbelievable.

[Johnny2X2X]

8. Thanks

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What was hilarious was recently his camp tried to explain bigly by saying what Trump was saying was "Big League." As in something is big league. It's so obvious he's pulling a Palin and saying bigly.

[Feeling the Bern]

14. His loss will embiggen the smallest man! - Jebediah Springfield

[MoonRiver]

6. Tiny Whatever, will finally be the biggest!

[red dog 1]

4. K&R

More good news for Dems

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. Better times ahead! n/t

[William769]

9. kick & recommended.

[Moonwalk]

10. This is hardly a surprise. Everything about him is last last century....

...the steaks, the miss-beauty-queen wife, the exclusive golf courses and bellowing "You're fired!" at employees. He's a living breathing stereotype/sit-com/Hugh Heftner-fantasy of the 50's/60's all-American jet-setting business man. He acts like nothing has changed in the last 50 years, and his big promise to voters is to restore America back to that 50's/60's All-American-jet-setting-business-man's paradise.

18-29 year olds don't even have *nostolgia* for what he's proposing. And they're certainly not going to see it as a paradise for them. Hillary and Sanders are of the same generation as Trump, but, acting their age, know that America must be what young people need it to be, not what they wanted it to be in their youth or even what they might want it to be now.

I'm pretty sure that most 18-29 years olds see Trump as some weird time warp or thawed-out-cryogenic-experiment. Hell, that's what *I* see and I'm a generation older than that. The only thing vaguely modern about him is that he tweets.

[wallyworld2]

11. a long list

A Full List of Donald Trump's Rapidly Changing Policy Positions

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/full-list-donald-trump-s-rapidly-changing-policy-positions-n547801

It's worth the read

[KMOD]

12. Wow.

You post that as an OP.

[WillyBrandt]

13. Great news for McCain

[DemonGoddess]

15. K&R!

[TomCADem]

16. Somewhat Surprised - White Nationalist Groups in Europe...

...often attract a large contingent of youth. In Nazi Germany, you had the Hitler Youth. Somewhat surprised that you don't have young white nationalists donning Orange Shirts given that so many other white nationalist figures like David Dukes have been drawn to Trump's campaign.

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/11/the_new_racists_on_campus_meet_the_youth_wing_of_the_white_nationalism_movement_partner/

Late last week, on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe, a hooded individual distributed fliers and hung posters declaring a war on immigration. Using the most recent covers of Charlie Hebdo as a backdrop, the flier was intended to be a call to action and an ominous warning: “America is ours, and we are tomorrow.”

The group behind the campaign, the National Youth Front, was no secret. It’s the newly formed youth wing of the white nationalist American Freedom Party, and it is only the latest in a growing number of racist organizations targeting youth on college campuses.

In recent years, groups like Youth for Western Civilization, formed by Kevin DeAnna, and the Traditionalist Youth Network, which emerged from a chapter of YWC founded on Towson University’s campus by Matthew Heimbach, have dominated the campus extremism landscape. At one point, YWC boasted 13 chapters, and TYN was making regular headlines for its racist activism at Towson and Indiana University.

But while those organizations have ties that run deep into the white nationalist movement, particularly to Jared Taylor’s American Renaissance, neither have ever served as a direct pipeline to a well-established hate group. NYF does exactly that, hoping that those they recruit in college, between the ages of 18 and 35, will help rejuvenate an already aging landscape.

[Jamaal510]

17. This is good

news to see many young people becoming wary of him and who still identify with Democrats. Still, voters younger than 35 aren't exactly reliable (and I say this as a 26 year old). Many of them don't vote in every election like they should, and even in this article, it says that there are some who aren't as "enthusiastic" about HC as they were about Sanders for whatever reason. Thankfully, the election won't come down to just the under 35 crowd.