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Not a criticism! Replace benefitting party as you wish. It is interesting when these initiatives present themselves as non-partisan. If you target a demographi
by alva 10y ago
Not a criticism! Replace benefitting party as you wish.
It is interesting when these initiatives present themselves as non-partisan. If you target a demographic that polling suggests will go for your preferred party, plough tons of money to encourage them to vote, can it truly be described as non-partisan?
edit: And if so, should they be obligated to disclose their preference and intention?
- beefman 10y agoIt is criticism. Insightful criticism. Thank you.
- mkagenius 10y agoIt is clear whom they don't want them to vote but what's wrong in that. They are not forcing anyone - just enabling them. They want them not to sit this one out as this could make them regret for not voting when there was a chance.
- gizmo 10y agoThere are two parts to it. First it encourages young people to vote. This is important because young people will be the most affected by policies enacted by the next president. This part is non-partisan, because it forces both political parties to take young people more seriously as a voting block. Second it's clearly against Trump, because Trump's base consists of older white people with racial anxiety/anger. Young people lean democrat, but they don't get out to vote.
- gthtjtkt 10y ago> Second it's clearly against Trump, because Trump's base consists of older white people with racial anxiety/anger. Young people lean democrat, but they don't get out to vote. If you honestly believe this, you are very out of touch with reality. Young voters hate both major party candidates almost equally.
- mikeyouse 10y agoClinton is a 36-point favorite over Trump with 18-34 year olds: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pr/2016/08/15/poll-finds-millennials-favor-clinton-over-trump-wide-margin/88757778/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pr/2016/08/15/poll-finds-...
- makomk 10y agoYeah, 18-34 year olds are a lot more willing to support Clinton than Trump, and also the age group with the most Clinton supporters and the least Trump supporters. It's easy to get a different impression from the mainstream press sometimes because they're pissed off that young people aren't even more overwhelmingly supportive of Clinton and some of them are supporting third parties instead. They came to believe that young people's anti-Republican lean would mean automatic Democrat victory in future and now they're angry that it hasn't come to pass.
- gizmo 10y agoRecent polls (2014) say young people are strongly leaning democrat. This may not match your experience, but then again, I don't believe you can understand a country by extrapolating from your social circle. http://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/wt-ykjnhfuezhxsedgqldg.png http://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Prod...
- r00fus 10y agoArguably, YC leadership is overbalanced towards Trump [1]. As someone who has a preference, I wholeheartedly support more enfranchisement regardless of demographic or party. That's a race to the top, not the bottom. [1] http://fortune.com/2016/07/21/peter-thiel-gives-full-throated-endorsement-of-donald-trump/ http://fortune.com/2016/07/21/peter-thiel-gives-full-throate...