Young voters flee Donald Trump in what may be historic trouncing, poll Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is consolidating the support of the Millennials who fueled Bernie Sanders' challenge during the primaries, a new USA TODAY/Rock the Vote Poll finds, as Republican Donald Trump heads toward the worst showing among younger voters in modern American history. The survey shows Clinton trouncing Trump 56%-20% among those under 35, though she has failed so far to generate the levels of enthusiasm Sanders did and the high turn-out that can signal among Millennials .. .In the new survey, half of those under 35 say they identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party; just 20% identify with or lean toward the Republican Party. Seventeen percent are independents, and another 12% either identify with another party or don't know. Trump's weakness among younger voters is unprecedented, lower even than the 32% of the vote that the Gallup Organization calculates Richard Nixon received among 18-to-29-year-old voters in 1972, an era of youthful protests against the Vietnam War http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ters-hillary-clinton-president-poll/88666746/ Pretty good and informative read. Worth ones time to read. There's much more polling data at the link.
I always laugh when the press talks about enthusiasm, for once the vote is cast, no one really cares whether it was enthusiastically cast or not. A vote is a vote is a vote is a vote. And the really bad news out of this story is the future of the youth vote for the GOP, which had already been struggling here, anyway....
