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Related: About this forumHarvard Poll of Millennials Finds Integrity Means More Than Experience
Harvard Poll of Millennials Finds Integrity Means More Than ExperienceThe millennial voting bloc is coalescing around the candidates running outsider, insurgent campaigns, according to a new poll released by Harvard University.
Ben Carson and Donald J. Trump are locked in a statistical dead heat for the youth vote, while Senator Bernie Sanders enjoys a 41 percent-to-35 percent advantage over Hillary Clinton. The likely millennial voters said that integrity, levelheadedness and authenticity, and not political experience, were the attributes they were looking for as they made their choice for president.
The poll finds that a majority of millennials, 56 percent, would still prefer to see a Democrat win the White House in 2016, which a news release notes is a 5 percent increase from the spring.
Regardless of party affiliation, however, candidates may have to put in extra work if they hope to court the youth vote. Only 20 percent considered themselves politically engaged and active, and fewer than half said they were following the 2016 presidential campaign.
Perhaps more ominous, half of those polled believe the American dream is dead.
Ben Carson and Donald J. Trump are locked in a statistical dead heat for the youth vote, while Senator Bernie Sanders enjoys a 41 percent-to-35 percent advantage over Hillary Clinton. The likely millennial voters said that integrity, levelheadedness and authenticity, and not political experience, were the attributes they were looking for as they made their choice for president.
The poll finds that a majority of millennials, 56 percent, would still prefer to see a Democrat win the White House in 2016, which a news release notes is a 5 percent increase from the spring.
Regardless of party affiliation, however, candidates may have to put in extra work if they hope to court the youth vote. Only 20 percent considered themselves politically engaged and active, and fewer than half said they were following the 2016 presidential campaign.
Perhaps more ominous, half of those polled believe the American dream is dead.
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/12/10/harvard-poll-of-millennials-finds-integrity-means-more-than-experience/?_r=0
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Harvard Poll of Millennials Finds Integrity Means More Than Experience (Original Post)
Live and Learn
Dec 2015
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LexVegas
(6,088 posts)1. That is why they favor Trump and Carson on the Rep side and the majority want troops sent to ME. nt
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)2. As do the Americans of any age group apparently. nt
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)3. You just don't get it do you?
the youth is anti-establishment. On the GOP side (where reactionary radicalism is all the rage these days), that translates to a vote for Trump and Carson. On the Democratic side, it translates to a vote for a candidate who wants to decrease income disparity, end hawkish foreign policies, end police abuse of communities of colour, reform the justice and prison system, and so on. That candidate is Sanders.
The assumption that "all millennials are the same" is beyond insulting. That is only true from the perspective of the establishment: unless you are part of the 1 %, you wouldn't feel that ALL the youth is abandoning your paradigms and positions.