Barack Obama holds a wide lead over Mitt Romney among younger voters

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President Barack Obama holds a wide lead over Mitt Romney among younger voters, a nationwide survey by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics shows.

Obama is preferred over the former Massachusetts governor by 17 percentage points -- 43 percent to 26 percent -- among Americans ages 18 to 29, a group often referred to as millennials because they came of age in this millennium. Undecideds are 30 percent, while 1 percent refused to answer.

“Over the last several months, we have seen more of the millennial vote begin to solidify around President Obama and Democrats in Congress,” Trey Grayson, the institute’s director, said in a statement today. “There has been effectively no change in their support for Mitt Romney and Republicans in Congress.”

Obama’s lead over Romney is smaller among those closest to college age, the Harvard survey shows. Among those 18 to 24, he leads Romney by 12 percentage points. For those 25 to 29, the advantage grows to 23 percentage points.


read: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-04-24/obama-preferred-over-romney-by-young-americans-in-harvard-survey

[still_one]

1. I hope so, I also hope women, labor, and those for civil rights get out and vote big time /nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Stupid Mitt can't figure it out.

Why more young people don't flock to the GOP.

Shhhhhh. Don't tell him.

[atheous]

3. It's the Porky effect

The famous Porky Pig cartoons of my youth don't excite young voters and poor Mitt keeps invoking Porky whenever cornered in debates or questioned by amyone NOT a rube hack.

[DefenseLawyer]

4. But will they actually vote?

That's always the real question. And unfortunately the answer is usually "no".

[bigtree]

7. that's the challenge, isn't it?

organize, mobilize, turnout.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Great so long as they vote.

That age group is the one least likely to.

[Dawson Leery]

6. K/R

[Rex]

8. Well you can vote for a human dynamo or a piece of balsa wood.

Why people still vote GOP, is a mystery to me.

[ananda]

9. Are these the same voters for whom..

.. GOP legislatures in many states are making it very difficult to vote?

[WI_DEM]

10. that's wonderful, but they need to vote.

[Johonny]

14. and the GOP is working hard to prevent them from voting

hence all the Jim Crow laws aimed at keeping students, the poor etc from registering and voting on election day.

[WI_DEM]

11. On the other hand, that is still somewhat lackluster considering Obama won this vote 66-34

in 2008. He still has work to do.

[bigtree]

12. that's all relative to the support Romney generates

and the interest in his campaign is at record lows. His unfavorable is higher than his favorable; the President is the reverse . . . The number of individual donors also portends a wide gap in enthusiasm for voters inclined to vote republican.

No one needs scolding, as folks here are apt to do at every sign of good news. Just because we're not at levels that carried our party into power in 2008, doesn't mean that there won't be a significant, proportional victory this time around.

Don't piss on my Wheaties! (to quote a notable DUer)

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

16. Not to mention ALEC/The Republicans going after student voting rights.

No longer will students be able to use their student ID cards.

They can't win fair and square so they have to resort to stealing elections through voter suppression!! Assholes!!

[bigtree]

13. kick

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

15. That's why R-Money is suddenly for reduing student loan rates.

Fucking liar!!

[Bake]

17. Yeah, but Mitt got Ted Nugent to endorse him!

And he's a ROCK STAR!

That'll get the youngsters to vote for him!



And do I really need to add,

Bake