Bernie Sanders is crushing Obama's youth vote record & he's not done yet!

[jillan]

Sanders is beating Obama’s 2008 youth vote record. And the primary’s not even over.

http://www.vox.com/2016/6/2/11818320/bernie-sanders-barack-obama-2008

Bernie Sanders isn't just winning the youth vote — he's crushing it.

A new analysis from Tufts University shows that Sanders has now surpassed Barack Obama's 2008 Democratic primary totals among young people in the 25 states where we can draw a comparison — whether you count by raw vote total or percentage of the overall vote share.

In 2008, the press marveled that Obama beat Hillary Clinton by 60 to 35 points among voters under 30, racking up around 2.2 million young votes throughout the primary.

Now Sanders is beating Clinton by a 71-to-28 margin, receiving more than 2.4 million votes from young voters in the 25 states we can compare, according to numbers compiled by Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts.

"The energy that young voters have kept up throughout the primary has been incredible," Kawashima-Ginsberg says in an interview. "It's been amazing to see."

Sanders's insurgency is being powered by young people, who are thrilling to his message in what looks like historic numbers.

In 2016, Bernie Sanders has won 71% of young voters
n the 2008 primary, Barack Obama won 60% of young voters

It's worth noting that Sanders won the youth vote even in places like North Carolina, a state that Clinton won by 15 points.

On edit - what is Hillary going to do to win these 2.4 million + voters?

[Cali_Democrat]

1. And yet Obama won in 2008 and Bernie will lose in 2016

Young people aren't the only voters in America.

[LexVegas]

2. And yet Bernie is losing badly.

[2banon]

5. losing "badly"

you traffic in flame baiting much?

you've got nothing else.. off to ignore list.

[rjsquirrel]

3. Yes this explains Bernie's massive lead

in delegates and popular votes. Those youth sure do turn out!

[anotherproletariat]

4. Honest question, does this mean he is losing older voters compared to Obama?

Why do you think he is just attracting primarily the youth? What do they see that older voters do not?

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. A different approach to politics, one that all but died out during the red scare decades.

[jillan]

7. I can't answer that. I'm 60 & am 100% with Bernie.