Vox: "Bernie Sanders has an 11-point advantage over Hillary Clinton among voters under 35"

[gobears10]

Bernie Sanders, the oldest candidate in the presidential race, is winning over the youngest voters.

A new poll of 18- to 35-year-olds from Rock the Vote and USA Today finds that they prefer Sanders to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary, 46 percent to 35 percent...

The poll didn't ask about socialism specifically. But in December, the Harvard Institute of Politics released its own poll of 18- to 29-year-olds, and found that Sanders held a similar advantage over Clinton: 41 percent to 35 percent. Only 9 percent said Sanders's socialism made them less likely to vote for him.

Full article: http://www.vox.com/2016/1/11/10750326/clinton-sanders-poll?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=voxdotcom&utm_content=monday

[onehandle]

1. ...who don't vote. nt

[snoringvoter]

5. Allow me to tweet it among over 85 millennials who actually vote.

Thank you for offending them and giving them NO reason to vote for Clinton, but go all out on Bernie.

[Plucketeer]

8. Thank You, Snoring Voter

I have a couple of grandkids that LOVE to be told they can't do something!

[zentrum]

13. Great idea. Do it!

It is offensive—as far as they're concerned it seems to be okay to just write off the whole future of the party.

[CorporatistNation]

16. Tweet The Shit Out of It!!!

[Warren DeMontague]

22. Remind them that Debbie Wasserman Schultz wants to protect them from dangerous legal marijuanas!

YAY!!!

[zentrum]

11. They will this time.

The millennials in my family can't wait. All female.

[Duval]

12. Mine are excited about Bernie!

[azmom]

18. Same here.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. That was said in '08 too.

[Betty Karlson]

19. They'll vote allright, for candidates who offer them more than:

- who else are you going to vote for?
- you are complacent (DWS)
- you are f*cking retarded (Rahm)
- We don't need your vote (Clinton's campaign)
- You just want a pony
- Now is not the right time for that (Obama's administration on gay rights, single payer, and a few more things in 2009)

[Warren DeMontague]

20. If we want to win in November, you better hope you're wrong.

[Green Forest]

23. Hillary's campaign folks said something similar right before the Iowa caucuses in 2008.

Nice the way that turned out!

[jeff47]

24. Except when they put Obama in office twice.

Obama lost voters over 40 in 2012. Obama lost or tied voters over 40 in 2008.

Those "kids who don't vote" elected Obama twice.

[onehandle]

25. Women elected Obama twice

'Kids' saw a slight uptick for him.

The MSM made it seem like they elected him.

[jeff47]

28. Nope. Take a look at the demographics

2012:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012#Voter_demographics
Women and men basically canceled each other out. 18-24 and 25-29 were utterly dominated by Obama voters, while Romney barely won among 40+

2008:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008#Voter_demographics
Both genders voted for Obama. 40-65 were tied, 65+ went McCain. Again, 18-29 dominated by Obama.

[onehandle]

29. Cool story, bro. 56% and 55% are what we call pluralities.

Women. Elected. Obama.

[jeff47]

31. And when there's a plurality on the opposite side of that demographic

what happens? It effectively cancels out the plurality. In 2012, Men voted for Romney as much as Women voted for Obama.

Now, go take a look at the plurality of under 39 voters, versus the slim majority among over 40 voters. Older voters did not go for Romney as much as younger voters went for Obama.

Your claim requires 60% to be smaller than 55%. You claim also requires not looking at the next entry in the table, where married women voted for Romney by 7 points.

[onehandle]

32. Your argument continues to run the 'kids elected Obama' premise off the rails. nt

[jeff47]

34. If that were true, you'd have an easy time showing that with statistics.

Instead, you're claiming 55 is bigger than 60, and that men voting for Romney had no effect on the election. You're also not providing any reason why the most women who voted (more married women voted than unmarried) voted for Romney yet women were responsible for Obama's victory.

[randys1]

27. Some do, our job is to convince the rest of them to vote, no matter which non terrorist

they vote for.

If ALL any of us really cared about was that, electing any non repub, we could really accomplish something.

Working GOTV is hard work.

[madokie]

33. You're sure hoping so huh

My bet is they will and my bet is the person who they vote for will win this hands down. How's them apples?

[OilemFirchen]

2. I'm helping them out.

I've been spending a few nights a week showing the hipsters at the brewpub how to cast their Primary vote on Reddit.

Despite their otherwise sullen nature, they've been surprisingly appreciative.

[leftofcool]

4. How did you get them to stop texting long enough to vote?

[OilemFirchen]

6. Well, they haven't voted yet.

But I did make liberal use of emojis.

[Warren DeMontague]

21. Yeah, well, nothing says 'cool' like crotchety old people trying to make fun of youngsters.

It's their century. We're just guests who have stayed a bit past check-out time.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. This comports with my real life experience.

Sanders had the biggest leads among younger voters, white voters, and those enrolled in college. Black and Hispanic young people, as well as those between 25 and 29, preferred Clinton

.

[jalan48]

7. I see that with the young people where I work.

They like Bernie because according to them, "He's more real". Hillary is perceived as a career politician who's out for herself.

[Plucketeer]

9. +1000 nt

[CorporatistNation]

17. Wildly Accurate Appraisal!

The kids are very perceptive.!

[onehandle]

26. None of the people under 30 in my office are registered to vote. nt

[Krytan11c]

35. So help them register

More voters is good, you know?

[WillyT]

10. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[George II]

14. Hah.....rumor is that he has a 100 point lead among voters who intend to vote for him.

[in_cog_ni_to]

30. K & R! n/t