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> 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 g
by 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...