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blm

(113,013 posts)
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 09:07 PM Sep 2019

USAToday: More young people likely to vote in 2020 than 2016

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/04/22/2020-presidential-race-harvard-youth-vote/3538944002/?

More young people likely to vote in 2020 than 2016, Harvard poll shows

More young people, particularly those who identify as Democrats, say they plan to vote in the 2020 presidential caucuses and primaries than did four years ago, according to a Harvard University Institute of Politics poll published Monday.

Forty-three percent of young voters, ages 18 to 29, surveyed said they are likely to participate in the nominating contests, compared to 36% of young voters who indicated that they’d vote in the nominating contests at the same point four years ago.

The new polling data suggests a continuation of a surge in engagement by young voters from November's midterm election. Youth turnout was 31% for the midterms, a 25-year-high that Democrats said helped pave the way for the party's largest gain of House seats since the post-Watergate 1974 elections..........
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USAToday: More young people likely to vote in 2020 than 2016 (Original Post) blm Sep 2019 OP
I sure hope so! SunSeeker Sep 2019 #1
if they do, we win even if they try to cheat Skittles Sep 2019 #2
Since they did NOT vote in 16 they won't show up in polls of LIKELY voters. blm Sep 2019 #4
Great News for Bernard S ritapria Sep 2019 #3

blm

(113,013 posts)
4. Since they did NOT vote in 16 they won't show up in polls of LIKELY voters.
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 09:21 PM
Sep 2019

Likely voters are voters who voted in last election.

 

ritapria

(1,812 posts)
3. Great News for Bernard S
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 09:11 PM
Sep 2019

Some of our most prestigious polling organizations claim the contrary is true ...

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