Nope, not even Harvard study says millenniels skewing GOP

[applegrove]

Nope, not even Harvard study says millenniels skewing GOP

by Kos at Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/30/1340345/-Nope-not-even-Harvard-study-says-millennials-skewing-GOP

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While more 18- to 29- year-olds (50 percent-43 percent) surveyed in the IOP’s fall 2014 poll would prefer that Congress be controlled by Democrats instead of Republicans, the numbers improve dramatically for the GOP when only young people who say they will “definitely vote” are studied.

Got that? Millennials are still Democratic, but white millennials will "definitely vote," whereas brown ones are less likely to say they will. That matters because among likely voters, young African Americans prefer Democratic control 68-23, and Latinos 59-34. Among whites it's 53-40 Republican. To further hammer the point:

By a significant 12-point margin, 42 percent to 30 percent, a greater proportion of young Republicans say they are definitely going to vote in November than young Democrats.

So news flash, white Republicans are more likely to turn out, even among youngsters. We kinda knew that. That's the whole point of Democratic GOTV. To fix that problem. This says nothing about long-term trends, and it sure doesn't support the idiotic media headlines this survey generated from reporters who still don't know how to read a poll.



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[Fred Sanders]

1. The nuisance is lost in the rush to judgment, it is a disease.

[maced666]

2. Hmm....

[applegrove]

3. I later posted another article.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025754037

Seems if you gear a race to grouchy old people, young people stay away. I am sure the GOP have known this for decades.