Nick Corasaniti tells us that
The millennial voting bloc is coalescing around the candidates running outsider, insurgent campaigns, according to a new poll released by Harvard University.
Ben Carson and Donald J. Trump are locked in a statistical dead heat for the youth vote, while Senator Bernie Sanders enjoys a 41 percent-to-35 percent advantage over Hillary Clinton. The likely millennial voters said that “integrity, levelheadedness and authenticity,” and not political experience, were the attributes they were looking for as they made their choice for president.
He also shares,
Perhaps more ominous, half of those polled believe the American dream is “dead.”They also don’t care that Sanders is a self-described “Democratic Socialist”.
But will they come out and vote?
Update 1: I had searched for a prior diary about this, but I missed one: geebeebee scooped me with Harvard Poll: Bernie leads Hillary among millennials nationwide, 41%-35% .
Another interesting data point found on the poll results, which Nick doesn’t mention, is
Solid Majority of America’s 18- to 29- Year-Olds Support Sending Ground Troops to Combat ISIS. Early fall 2015 IOP polling fielded before the Nov. 13 Paris terrorist attacks showed America’s youth split over whether to send U.S. ground troops to combat ISIS, with 48% saying they supported the action (48%: oppose) – a nine percentage-point drop in support over the past eight months (Mar. 2015: 57% support, 40% oppose). However, IOP polling re-fielded the question following the Nov. 13 Paris terrorist attacks – finding a 12 percentage-point swing in support with a strong majority (60%) of young Americans supporting sending U.S. ground troops to combat ISIS (40%: oppose).
They apparently don’t mind the thought of more war. Sigh.
