Feel like making a crack about youth turnout? Read this first.

[redqueen]

Link to tweet

[LisaM]

1. Apparently that problem was endemic all over LA.

Not just at UCLA.

[awesomerwb1]

2. Did she provide a link to that?

Or should we just take her word for it?

[George II]

3. This guy waited seven hours to vote, didn't complain, then went to work after midnight...

....he wasn't a youth.

Texas man waits 7 hours to vote, then gladly goes to work at 1:30 a.m.

A Texas man waited nearly seven hours to cast his Super Tuesday vote, then left to work his late shift at 1:30 a.m. He had no complaints.

“It felt good,” Hervis Rogers told the Houston Chronicle Tuesday night.

Rogers was the last voter to cast a ballot at that primary spot and he did so after the AP reported Joe Biden had already edged out Bernie Sanders in the Lone Star state. The former vice president got just over 34% of the vote and captured 70 delegates. Sanders finished with 30% of the vote and 60 delegates. President Trump will be the Republican candidate on the 2020 ballot in Texas.

Rogers, who brought his own chair so he could sit while waiting to vote, wouldn’t divulge who he supported.

“No, I’m not gonna’ say,” he said smiling. “I think it was the right choice.”

Link to tweet

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-texas-man-waits-seven-hours-vote-goes-to-work-20200304-z7tkhn7m4fge3ndjaxygbqw2rm-story.html

[Gothmog]

4. Analysis: Young voters are turning out in lower numbers than Bernie Sanders expected

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But the exit polling from this year's contests so far shows a more challenging picture for Sanders. Youth turnout compared to 2016 is either flat or down in a majority of states that have voted, according to these polls, meaning young voters both form a smaller share of the overall Democratic primary vote and turned out in smaller net numbers. Sanders could end up seeing better data for him from the final results in Colorado and California, however.

The lack of enthusiasm among younger voters was especially pronounced with turnout up 33 percent from 2016 among every group across Super Tuesday states.

“For example, in North Carolina, overall turnout was up 17 percent — youth turnout was down 9 percent,” John Della Volpe, director of polling at the Harvard Institute of politics told Power Up. “There's not evidence to suggest that Sanders has expanded the electorate among young people in important ways.” ....

Della Volpe said data doesn't necessarily support the idea that all young voters want the kind of sweeping policy changes candidates like Sanders are calling for.

Problematic for Sanders?: “When looking at young Democratic primary voters, bold structural change is preferred, but not by as much as you might think,” Della Volpe told us at the time after an IOP study released in November

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. But that doesn't explain why he underperformed everywhere else now does it? The data shows...

and BS even acknowledged on Rachel's show, that the share of younger voters dropped from 2016. Let's not make stuff up.

[William769]

12. +1

[MyNameGoesHere]

6. Yeah I mean crap

How am I going to keep my phone charged for four hours? No thank you. I can wait a max like 5 minutes.

[Hoyt]

7. California has early voting and voting by mail. No excuse for not voting.

[Wounded Bear]

8. Was a lot of that going around...

inexcusable in Dem states and districts. If we're for expanding voting rights, we need to follow through on it.

It's easier to blame Repub areas like Texas, but still, it's inexcusable.

[redqueen]

13. I would say im shocked by the excuse making, whataboutery, and insults in this thread

But I'd be lying

Thanks for your reply. You restore my faith in this place

[tishaLA]

9. UCLA had more than one voting location.

I should know cuz I teach there.

And CA has weeks and weeks of early voting--it's one of the most pro-enfranchisement states in the nation--so, despite all the issues with the new voting machines across LA county, it was still a relatively simple process

[ibegurpard]

10. Based on the replies

cracks it is...

[redqueen]

14. Yep

It's been 30 years. Wellstone warned us. It's too late, it seems. The takeover is complete.

[wyldwolf]

11. So kids can't be bothered to wait in line?

Poor babies.



Yes, it is terrible lines can be long and something needs to be done.

BUT

Long lines are a way of life in black neighborhoods and they turn out in very large numbers... year after year...