Inside Clinton’s struggle to win over college students in Ohio

[UCmeNdc]

Tyler Hoisington, 24, is one of four full-time, paid staffers focused on registering new voters on the campus of this battleground state’s flagship university, which has 65,000 students. Over more than two hours yesterday, he knocked on every door on both sides of four city blocks, including a few multi-level apartment buildings. Despite his best efforts, he could not get a single person to either register to vote or sign a card committing to support the Democratic nominee for president.


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[elleng]

1. Bad news,

about Ohio State among other things.

[book_worm]

2. The thing is they aren't going for Trump either

his percentage among 18-29 year olds is worse than Romney. What many of them are doing is going to Johnson or Stein which is just as bad because it is probably the major reason why Trump may carry Ohio.

[SaschaHM]

3. I kind of wish Trump lived in Ohio..

So he could run for Governor and give the state what it's asking for. Harsh, I know.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. First election I ever voted on, I got registered waiting in line at The OSU Student Union. This

is so sad and pathetic.

[radius777]

5. Yikes.

Polls show just how heavy Clinton’s lift is with young voters. Our latest Washington Post/ABC News poll shows that voters under 30 prefer Clinton by 2 points nationally, compared with a 30-point preference for Obama four years ago. This tracks with every other survey: Gallup found that only one in three adults under 30 approve of the Democratic nominee. In Quinnipiac’s last poll, 31 percent of likely voters from ages 18 to 34 supported Clinton – compared to 29 percent for Johnson.
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A recent analysis by the liberal group Project New America found that in several battleground states—including Ohio, Florida and North Carolina—Sanders holdouts likely constitute a constituency larger than the margins that decided the 2012 presidential race, Bloomberg reported last week.
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As he walked down Summit Street, not far from campus, Hoisington said that he still runs into a lot of Sanders diehards. Are they persuadable? “Not all the time,” he sighed. “So the angle I try to take is, ‘I know you might not like Hillary or Trump, but the two really aren’t comparable.’ But in their eyes they are. In their eyes, they’re equally evil. Which is nuts to me.”

“I definitely have been able to change a few people’s minds, but a lot revert to just Gary Johnson,” he added. “So I say, do you not believe in climate change? And a lot of people say, well, can you prove climate change? It’s really frustrating.”
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