Only half of young Obama voters are prepared to vote for Democrats

[babsbunny]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/05/15/only-half-of-young-obama-voters-are-prepared-to-vote-for-democrats/

By Aaron Blake
May 15 at 1:37 pm

In case there was any doubt that the youth vote could hurt Democrats in 2014, the following two charts should just about kill it.

The data below come from Democratic pollster Paul Harstad, who conducted a survey of young voters for the Youth Engagement Fund and Project New America. It looks in-depth at what motivates young voters -- specifically, millennials aged 18 to 31 -- to vote, and to vote Democratic.

The first chart looks only at those young voters who cast ballots for President Obama in 2012:

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Young voters will generally vote Democratic--if they bother to vote.

Time for the party to get serious about GOTV among young people.

Interestingly, 11% of them said they preferred parties other than Democrats or Republicsn.

5% Libertarian

2% Green Party

2% Socialist

2% Tea Party

[oneofthe99]

2. Obama hip young and cool

Hillary ...not so much

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. Maybe, but this is about the 2014 congressional mid-terms.

[Gman]

4. She hasn't even started.

Before it's over her and Bill will be the cool grandparents everyone would love to have.