2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: CBS poll: 51% of Millennials voting either Republican or Libertarian (white women only 49%) [View all]MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Not random ones, but grandchildren, nieces and nephews, your own children, and any other millennials with whom you have some sort of positive relationship. Ask them why they're considering a third party or Republican vote and talk straightforwardly about the issues they bring up, adding other issues they may not be considering.
I have millennial nieces and nephews with whom I get along well. When we communicate, it's on a fairly casual basis, and takes into consideration of my history of listening to them when they bring up serious things. I don't tell them what to do, ever, but I do discuss things they might have missed in forming opinions.
At this point, pretty much all of them are voting for Hillary, and I'm working on the few who aren't. I'm their uncle, not a parent, and I never take a parent-style approach to any of them. I've been talking to them for years as individual people in whom I'm interested, and they trust me and contact me from time to time to discuss stuff they're sorting out. One niece called me to ask how she should approach telling her parents that she is bisexual. I know her parents well, so I gave her some ideas about how to approach the subject without pushing any buttons that would cloud acceptance. She took my advice and now her parents are being quite supportive, despite their misgivings about it.
Use your uncleness or auntness. We're usually non-threatening, non-judgmental adults in their lives. They often trust us.