Bernie Sanders is profoundly changing how millennials think about politics, poll shows

[Uncle Joe]

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The data, collected by researchers at Harvard University, suggest that not only has Sanders's campaign made for an unexpectedly competitive Democratic primary, he has also changed the way millennials think about politics, said polling director John Della Volpe.

"He's not moving a party to the left. He's moving a generation to the left," Della Volpe said of the senator from Vermont. "Whether or not he's winning or losing, it's really that he's impacting the way in which a generation — the largest generation in the history of America — thinks about politics."

Apparently, Sanders's popularity with young voters isn't just some shallow fad or a cult of personality with little connection to substantive questions of politics. Young people, it seems, are taking Sanders's ideas to heart.

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For the first time in the past five years of Harvard's polls, significantly more young people called themselves Democrats than said they were independent. Forty percent were Democrats, 22 percent were Republicans and 36 percent were independent.



Della Volpe cautions that it's impossible to predict how millennials' views will shift in the future, but people change parties only rarely after about age 30, researchers have found. If that pattern holds for the millennial generation, then Democrats could be indebted for decades to a politician who has rejected a formal association with the Democratic Party for his entire career until now.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/25/bernie-sanders-is-profoundly-changing-how-millennials-think-about-politics-poll-shows/

[scottie55]

1. Bernie The Independent Saving The Democratic Party

Not really.

I think it is too late, and too corrupt.

At least the under 30 crowd knows not everyone wants to screw them out of their future.

Saddling them with a collapsing eco-system and 20 trillion in debt because the old folks don't have the courage to ask rich folks to pay taxes.

[hill2016]

4. the rich pay most of the taxes already

what's really happening is that old folks have voted themselves benefits without funding them. Ran up the nation's debt. Enjoyed generous college subsidies but pulled up the ladder and refused to pay for the next generation. Medicare Part D.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/05/baby-boomers-are-whats-wrong-with-americas-economy/

[noretreatnosurrender]

6. Right

Spoken like a true Republican.

[rhett o rick]

8. This is total right wing Republicon talking points. The fact that you

are a HRC fan says a lot.

[Ghost Dog]

10. Thus spracht hillshill. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. You mean like General Electric? Their tax rate this year and a few yers to the past

was ZERO.

And with tax heavens, the very wealthy pay nearly zero. I pay more than they do. Try to sell that propaganda somewhere else.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014F6X8LW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1

The uber rich hide money to the tune of 21 trillion, so spread that lie somewhere else.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/

[AgingAmerican]

21. Almost everything you say is a Republican talking points

Same with your OPs. Why would that be?

[reformist2]

23. Wow. Are you seriously saying that retirees don't deserve the benefits they get???

[KPN]

27. Sure you belong on this website?

[seekthetruth]

31. And I suppose the Reagan administration never happened.

Study history.

[polichick]

5. "too late, and too corrupt" - yes, it seems so imo...

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I just hope this newborn baby revolution grows as fast as possible!

[Chasstev365]

2. They will be so disappointed by Hillary!

Business as usual, pro corporate job killing policies. Think I'm wrong? Ask Charlie Koch!

[GreatGazoo]

15. or ask 1994

http://www.britannica.com/topic/1994-midterm-Elections-616578

[Duppers]

28. A heart-sickening time.

A and a bellwether for modern politics.

[haikugal]

3. Thanks Uncle Joe...Bernie is the president this country needs right now.

They still don't get it..the two party system is dying and none too soon.

[Uncle Joe]

7. The Republican graph looks like it had a heart attack.

Thank you, haikugal.

[scottie55]

9. They Will Take Us Down With Them Though

We just had 7 years of nothing but gridlock, and sabotage when PBO was elected, and re-elected in a landslide.

We can count on the republicans to burn the house down on their way out, and have the media blame "progressives" for wanting stuff.

[haikugal]

24. I have no doubt, and they will try to blame us they always do. nt

[KoKo]

11. Thank You, "Uncle Joe"....We need to Aim for the Future..with the Wisdom of the Past!

[Uncle Joe]

12. Well said, KoKo.

[Uncle Joe]

14. Speaking about "Wisdom of the Past" have you seen the video of this man from

Donkees thread?

He was 16 years old when Bernie was born, Bernie is just a young whipper snapper.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017361906

[KoKo]

18. Wow...looks interesting...Thanks!

[840high]

13. Thank you Uncle Joe.

[Uncle Joe]

17. It was my pleasure, 840high.

Peace to you.

[daeros]

19. great news.

[jwirr]

20. A bit of an err in the title of the graph. Democrats are NOT

winning over young people. Bernie is.

[Uncle Joe]

25. The survey has that title but I believe the OP clearly spells out what the

driving dynamic is, that being Bernie.

[gollygee]

22. It certainly looks like the country is moving way to the left.

And we'll see more and more progressive candidates, more and more often, especially with how successful Bernie has been, regardless of what happens with the nomination.

[silvershadow]

26. Where the winds blow, Hillary will follow. In Bernie's tailwind. nt

[snowy owl]

32. Will she . . . will she stay? She's an old cold-warrior. I don't know if she can change.

[silvershadow]

33. No. She's just there, behind him. She will never catch up to him politically. Ever.

I mean as an intellectual. I don't know if this election will be a win, lose, or steal.

[snowy owl]

30. What do you think of our current "progressive caucus" who are hiding from Bernie?

With the exception of a few...

[snowy owl]

29. This is what I've been waiting for years!

I had a conversation with a young woman going into poly sci and my message to her was to really study and learn what the United States used to hold sacred since FDR. We seem to have no mechanism to pass on institutional memory. Young people think having to pay huge sums for education is normal. They think having so much homelessness is normal. They think this polarity in wealth is normal.

No, no, no! It is relatively new. It has really come about since Reagan but no one tells them. No one fights the devolution. I pleaded with her to study history and learn what it took to make the middle class which is really what made America an exceptional nation. You have to understand history to protect the future. Bernie's stunning emergence has people finally comparing themselves to other countries who have less wealth yet more security for their people. Thank you, Bernie. Millennials are taking heed as they should. Without someone who remembers and leads, would it have happened? I think not.

[Duppers]

34. This is so true!

My son and his friends are prime examples and are campaigning for Bernie!