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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA recent Gallup poll found that just 26% of 18- to 29-year-olds are certain to vote in this year's
midterm electionless than half of any other age group
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/young-voters-might-actually-show-up-at-the-polls-this-year/
This infuriates me, there outta be a law.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Link to tweet
Stein crunched the data from a list of the record 63,000 Harris County voters who cast their ballot in-person Monday, the first day of early voting. He found 15 percent of all voters that day were under age 35. During the 2014 midterms, those voters made up about 8 percent of the total.
For a presidential year election, Stein said around 40 percent of 18-to-35-year-old registered voters turn out. However, he said if Mondays trend continues, that rate for the 2018 midterms will be around 50 percent.
"That will mean a 10-point increase in what they perform in presidential elections, 2016, 2012," Stein said. "That's very unusual."
Arkansas Granny
(31,529 posts)bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)That's about as undemocratic as it gets.
randr
(12,414 posts)Democracy comes at a cost.
Personally, I would take the drivers license from people who chose not to participate.
No more free rides.
Bfd
(1,406 posts)is bulll shit.
They don't value nor have a clue.
randr
(12,414 posts)I figure if the youth want more power, let them take it. They have the numbers to do as they choose.
Bfd
(1,406 posts)But when their most basic involvement is to vote, & they demonstrate & organize & hold their signs & get loud online but do not use their Vote, then I really wonder just why all the noise in the first place.
Don't drop the ball after the thrill of gathering at the rally is over, ffs.
randr
(12,414 posts)They could create whatever world they desire if they only knew it.
Bfd
(1,406 posts)and with all the information they have so availible to them, there is no reason not to be motivated to use that right-to-vote.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)no person should sit out elections and this is why we have what we have.
ok, go back to xbox now
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)Other polls show young people planning to vote at record highs.
Demsrule86
(68,667 posts)JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)"They are also weighted to match the national demographics of gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, region, population density, and phone status (cell phone-only/landline only/both, cell phone mostly). Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2017 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older U.S. population."
https://news.gallup.com/poll/243218/election-2018-trending180927.aspx?g_source=link_newsv9&g_campaign=item_243173&g_medium=copy
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like these poll findings are heavily massaged to compensate for all the people -- younger folks included -- whom they didn't actually survey.
Granted, they do this for most polls, but in this election more than any other they need to account for masses of first-time voters that wouldn't fit into their "likely voter" profiles.
Cattledog
(5,919 posts)Hopefully it changes this Nov.
still_one
(92,396 posts)they will pay a very heavy price for their stupidity.