https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-millennials-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN1I10YH Exclusive: Democrats lose ground with millennials - Reuters/Ipsos poll Polls obviously aren't everything, but I found this eye opening with 6 months to go till mid terms. Is the big blue wave real?
This sounds about right...half of the Republicans challenge is to take away Trump's tweeting privileges. Democrats haven't brought out a platform that people could rally behind. Fear will work if the economy tanks, but it isn't a vote for their party rather a vote away from the other. That's probably why the white vote shrank in the poll. At least they're being addressed by a party. I think a good number of poor voters will not believe in the Republicans overstatement of the belt busting, fat cat feeding tax cuts, but something, no matter how little, is better than nothing but talk
When people realize that their tax cut was an illusion and they will have to pay it back come 2018 as they owe taxes, I think things will change
Who gets off their ass and actually votes? Young people have never done it, maybe (hah!) this time is different. They talk a good game, though.
Either way, it doesn't portend well for Dem candidates. They were more likely to vote for Dems in 2016, and they lost the Senate. Now they are even less likely to vote for Dems while their likelihood of voting Republican stays steady.
Do other polls show the same trend? Maybe with this, the gop will make it easily for student to vote.
Millenials aren’t that much different than any other generation. They vote with their wallets in the end. With millenials I also think they care even less about culture wars that the old folks get worked up about. They grew up in a different world than grandpa with lots of diversity. Just shows that the GOP and Trump could stumble into victory with their large curve with gerrymandered states. All they really have to do is not do something stupid with the economy, don’t start another war, and keep Trump from doing incredibly stupid things. It was always going to be challenging for Democrats in 2016 and will be in 2018 as well. Most will come down to personality of the candidates that get through to their constituents. If the GOP stays away from the Roy Moore’s, keep out of war with Iran, , and don’t crash the economy, they’ll do okay.
Election will be over by then . . . . so it won't matter That said .. . . . . I DON'T MEAN TO BE RACIST BUT . . . . . .. . LMAO Anyway . . . .. It is easy to be idealist and believe in equality while you chilling in school and living off the parents but once you out there in competition . . . .well . . .you kind of just want to live a great life and if it means supporting the inequalities that you riled against as a youth . . . so be it The benefits of being white and male . . . .are hard to give up when you in then midst of competition It happens from generation to generation Young kids will feel equality and everyone should compete on level playing field then 10 years later . . .. . they appreciate the unlevel playing field they are benefitting from and will do what ever to keep it because they realize true equality will hurt their economic prospects. "Women should get equal pay as men" - Young male "OK . . . . so we cutting your pay down to the 70% she is getting" - Boss "Well . . hold up a minute. .. . I didn't say all that." - Young Male Also I think the Youngsters don't understand the long game They want instant gratification Demos make promises . .. . . . .but they down the line Rocket River
I have suspected that millennials are a strong demographic for populism, both the leftist Bernie kind and the right-wing Trump kind. Democrats currently look like Party of Establishment, what with the arch-Establishment candidate in Hillary Clinton, and the Republicans mostly bowing before Trump. I would not be surprised if its true the millennials, especially white and male, become disillusioned with them. I wonder if ten years from now, I'll be the conservative Democrat dad that my young-adult children -- by then either socialists or fascists -- are reproaching for being old-fashioned and stuck in my ways. They'll make an Archie Bunker reboot that makes fun of my demographic for believing in civil rights and free trade.
The Republicans already controlled the senate and the Democrats picked up a couple of seats in 2016 but I don't think that matters much. Republicans and Democrats are basically neck and neck when it comes to white millennials, which probably isn't a good sign for Republicans in the future considering that white voters are by far their strongest demographic in every other voting age group.
We're closing in on summer time, people are supposed to be horny, not thinking of politics. Polls will be more illuminating in the early fall. Right now the thing you look at is candidate fundraising, canvassing volunteers, on-the-ground enthusiasm and for House Democrats it's at a historic level. There's a reason so many House Republicans are retiring, including the 48-year-old Speaker.
Yep. I know more than a few people who, if they couldn't get Bernie, just wouldn't vote, or voted for Trump. I'd look at them incredulously: "So, if you can't get socialism, you'll go for fascism, as long as you get an 'ism'." Played right into Trump's (tiny little) hands, too.
