Biden Scores Gigantic Lead Among Young Voters, Per Latest Campaign Data

[Tom of Temecula]

The latest polling by the frequent collaborators YouGov and The Economist shows an absolutely huge lead for President Joe Biden among registered voters from the ages of 18 through 29.

The pollsters were specifically asking for registered voters’ intentions in the expected rematch later this year between Biden and former President Donald Trump, who’s sailing to a Republican nomination for the contest after his last remaining serious challenger, Nikki Haley, dropped out.

Those from the aforementioned age range backing Biden reached 54 percent, the largest share of any age group expressing support for the current president. It’s only slightly below the portion from that age range won by Biden in the 2020 presidential election, per exit polling by Edison Research. (That data showed a 60 percent share backing the Democrat.) Trump in the new polling from YouGov was at only 31 percent among those younger voters.

The polling was completed just before President Biden’s recent “State of the Union” address given in front of Congress, which spurred a wave of positive news coverage for the president. Leading up to, during, and after the speech, the president and his team have sought to highlight an extensive range of accomplishments including the infrastructure spending package enacted much earlier in Biden’s tenure that continues fueling projects around the country.

https://bipartisanreport.com/2024/03/11/biden-scores-gigantic-lead-among-young-voters-per-latest-campaign-data/

[pwb]

1. Yeah school shootings and the earth

they have to live on for a long time, is burning up. Climate change is big with them. Women's health is big too. My young family members say trump is just not nice in any regard.

[Lovie777]

2. That won't make it in the corporate media universe................

[Dulcinea]

3. Climate change, LGBTQ rights, reproductive rights...

They'll take the decent old guy over the orange colostomy bag, thank you very much.

I have 2 college daughters, & they plus their friends are all on the same page.

[bdamomma]

28. I know

we all have our names for the POS, but I like the orange colostomy bag.

[Politicub]

33. Colostomy bags

I don’t want to be that guy, but I’ve recently become more sensitized to stigma around colostomy bags.

My father had to have one after a surgery, and he was so self-conscious about it. Then a friend needed one, and had the same reaction.

So many people have colostomy bags, yet there’s also a lot of shame that society imposes on people with them.

Anyway, colostomy bags are useful durable medical equipment. Trump, otoh, is about as useless as anything can be.

I know no one is trying to offend. I just wanted to share that.

[bdamomma]

35. Well

maybe not a colostomy bag he uses, but we know he wears a diaper.

[Habitation]

39. Your post would make a great jeopardy-like cartoon

Two categories left

Decent old guy and orange colostomy guy

What is climate change?
What is LGBTQ rights?
What are reproductive rights?
What is conservation?

What is bromhidrosis?
What is a narcissist?
What is a High Mach?
What is a psychopath?

[Silent Type]

4. Hopefully, supporters will increase after SOTU. Not sure falling from 60% to 54% is

anything to cheer, but maybe I’m missing something.

[imaginary girl]

7. Apples to oranges!

Although it was presented like a decrease, they are comparing a general poll done 9 months before the election to an exit poll. Not equivalent. Some of the undecideds will break for Biden, and some will stay home instead. These numbers don't take any of that into account.

[Silent Type]

12. Sounds like rationalization to me, but I do hope the number increases by November.

I seldom count chickens beforehand they hatch. The SOTU speech should make a difference, but I’ve been disappointed before.

[Elessar Zappa]

13. Biden will win young voters by a large margin.

I’m not worried about it.

[DemocraticPatriot]

22. In exit polling, there are NO undecideds...

so even if Biden's level of support was exactly the same among that group as voted in 2020, it is natural that a preference poll taken now would read that support as a few percentage points lower-- because the poll results include "undecideds".

So it appears to me that President Biden is in great shape with that age group,
as long as we can get them to turn out and vote...

[tazkcmo]

9. The way I read it

They polled registered 18-29 y/o's before SOTU but ALL of that age group in the exit poll so naturally the number would be higher.

There's a lot of time before the election and a lot of 18 year olds' birthdays, too. I see that 54% growing substantially by the next exit poll, possibly eclipsing the 60% from the 2020 exit poll.

[Aristus]

5. My grandson knows I'm a liberal Democrat and a Joe Biden supporter.

He lets me fill out his ballot for his signature, because he trusts me on the issues. Everyone he knows either supports Joe Biden, or opposed TFG.

[AkFemDem]

10. wtf? Why isn't he filing out his own ballot??

Why isn't he being encouraged to do research on ballot measures and candidates? What happens when you pass away someday? Where do you live that this is even legal??

[Aristus]

11. No. He signs it and files it.

I just fill it out for him. Washington State has mail-in and drop-box voting.

[Hope22]

24. I took care of my sister for years.

She was a raging republican and on disability. Every election she would fill out her ballot and smile as she completed it, reminding me that she was canceling my vote out. I would remind her that she was voting against her own best interest. She never changed. I always facilitated her voting because it was the right thing to do. I love that you look after the young people and keep them headed in the right direction!

[slightlv]

32. My mom and dad were the same way.

Mom was a total democrat; dad, an old-style republican. He was also 20 years older than mom. They'd come out from voting talking about how they cancelled out each other's votes. But they never missed an election. The right was too important, no matter who voted for who. That message was instilled in me at an early age; my younger brother and sister are more hit and miss... my brother more than my sis... but sis and I talk a lot more together, and she knows there's a hell of a lot more to lose for us than my brother comprehends.

[Hope22]

36. I hear you. I love hearing about family voting traditions.

A man in the US that does not stand up and speak out for reproductive rights at this time is on a tough grounding. I’m going to have a hard time forgiving some of the males in my life when this is all over. I never imagined it being ‘all over’ in my lifetime but my heart tells me differently.

[Hekate]

6. Very encouraging!

[FBaggins]

38. Why?

It's a six point drop from a race that he won by 4.5%

Worse yet... they made up only 10% of the sample... when they were 17% of the electorate last time around (which is backed up by the fact that - while they prefer him to TFG - the president's approval rating for this group was substantially underwater).

[Cha]

8. So much for those postings that crop up

saying Pres Biden is losing the the youth vote.

TY!

[Demovictory9]

14. Great..now now vote young people

[AllaN01Bear]

15. eggscllent.

[Warpy]

16. Good. The kids are just fine.

It doesn't look like they're going to be suckers for neoliberal horse shit in sufficient numbers to elect many Republicans.

[Basic LA]

17. Gaza is the last shoe to drop.

We could lock in the youth vote with immediate action there, and it does feel like something big is about to happen, vis-a-vis Butcher Bibi.

[DownriverDem]

21. They don't

know the history of Gaza & Israel. Sad but true.

[Sky Jewels]

26. Actually, they know genocide is wrong,

no matter who is perpetrating it.

[slightlv]

34. Many don't... some do.

My nephew is well versed in it, as much as one can be and not be totally involved in the long history. But he's not a one issue voter on anything but democracy. Love him as much as if he were my own; was there when he was born, and took him everywhere with me when he was young. He's at the top of the age range polled, but he's got a poly-sci degree and the conversations hubs and I have with him are wonderful. Of course, we usually clear the room of everyone else, but the three of us have a blast! (LOL)

He's Biden all the way. Not just because of *rump and his threat to democracy, but also because of his policies. The kid has an excellent head on his shoulders!

[twodogsbarking]

18. Network media will be covering Dachshund races.

[usonian]

19. Joe gives us a vision of the future. The GOP vision is of the past.

I often post my list of the dystopian alternative to Biden that people, especially young people, face.

The choice is clear.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=18754657

[DownriverDem]

20. Good

Their futures need to be a big motivation. 2028 will be the generation turn over.

[ananda]

23. Wonderful!

Go Dems!

[FailureToCommunicate]

25. AND, those poll number are before deploying "our" secret weapon...

[Nululu]

27. Who do you trust?

...with Healthcare
...with the environment
...with the economy?
...with world affairs

Biden is the answer.

[lindysalsagal]

29. But will the young voters gotv?

[All Mixed Up]

30. I'd like to see what these numbers look like when likely voters are factored in before I get too excited.

This is the most fickle demographic.

[bdamomma]

31. Everyone who loves

their way of life and their country, VOTE in record numbers. Do not forget what this Orange Pus Job has done, and what he is planning to do. Does anyone want to live in dictatorship, or an extreme branch of religion for example, Opus Dei which Leonard Leo is a member of.

[red dog 1]

37. Young Democrats of America's website

https://yda.org