Young voters finally breaking for Clinton in new NBC/SurveyMonkey poll.

[riversedge]

Good for

Kyle Griffin ?@kylegriffin1 7h7 hours ago

Young voters finally breaking for Clinton in new NBC/SurveyMonkey poll.

She's at 68% -- up 12 pts from last week:

[cosmicone]

1. Proves that young voters may not be well-informed

but they are certainly not stupid.

Gives me hope....

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

14. Wow how condescending

I'm glad my generation is extremely progressive, gives me hope for a better future for all

[cosmicone]

15. Did your generation really understand

that Bernie wasn't going to eliminate tuition for all college students?

I think not based upon the conversations I have had with students. Many seemed to think Bernie would do it with just a signature once elected.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

16. Every generation has its low information voters...

I'm aware how laws are enacted and such. It's like all those tv shows where they ask easy questions but only show the people who answer them poorly

[cosmicone]

17. I don't want to fight the concluded primary

The proof is in the votes.

[SpareribSP]

21. I haven't been on DU in a while

Clicked on two posts, see your name on each, and both of the posts are just toxic, condescending nonsense. Sheesh.

[cosmicone]

22. welcome back to DU n/t

[SpareribSP]

24. Thanks!

[demosincebirth]

29. I wouldn t say stupid, I'd say hardheaded

[Thinkingabout]

2. They are recognize a con man, good for them

[jimw81]

3. Proves warren is better progressive than sanders

To make the case vs trump

[Arkansas Granny]

4. It's only natural that it would take a little time to get behind

another candidate. Passions run high during a hard fought campaign and a lot of people were disappointed. Hopefully, this trend will continue and give us an even better outlook in the Senate and the House.

[riversedge]

7. well said.

[spooky3]

20. Agree

[Squinch]

5. This election appears to be a learning moment for them. And to be fair, they are

doing better than my generation did with McGovern. Apparently they will not bring disaster down on our heads for multiple election cycles the way we did.

[cally]

10. Thank you---too many or our generation don't recognize

the disaster during those years. Our generation helped elect Reagan! I don't like the too frequent condescending attitude to today's younger generation.

[Squinch]

13. To be clear, I don't like the too frequent condescending attitude FROM

today's younger generation either, but this move by younger voters tells me they are learning some of the things that we took much longer to learn.

And perhaps, if they take things in this context, they will understand that superdelegates are the response to the same McGovern problem that resulted in Reagan and the Bushes. And they are NOT a bad idea.

[Hortensis]

19. Hope so. I wonder if we'll find they took a

lesson from what Brexit did to England's younger voters. Those who voted, after all, overall voted to stay, among other things voted to have the option to travel Europe without fuss, go to school all over Europe, consider jobs all over Europe.

[Motley13]

26. Brexit opened their eyes

good point, if you don't vote you can see what could happen

Prez trump should scare the crap out of everyone

[Hortensis]

27. "President Trump" SHOULD be too unthinkable to be scary.

But let's hope Brexit did make a few more young people realize they really need to vote if they don't want Trump. That they can't depend on their parents to just handle that for them.

[Squinch]

30. True. Historically they seldom have so there is no reason to expect it.

[Hekate]

6. KnR for some good news

[MaggieD]

8. She will win millenials by a wide margin

They are not foolish enough to vote for Trump. Of course we will have the age old problem of them not showing up to vote, but those that do will go for Clinton in a big way.

[TwilightZone]

9. She already had a solid lead.

Nice to see it continuing to increase.

The assertion that they weren't going to vote for her was always rather questionable. Some didn't seem to understand that young voters could support Sanders in the primary and Clinton in the general. They're not mutually exclusive, of course.

[lunamagica]

12. K&R. Awesome!

[MineralMan]

18. That's not surprising. Now, I'm looking forward

to see them turn out in large numbers. That will tell us more than a voting preference poll, I think.

If enthusiasm continues to lag, millennial turnout may be low. I hope enthusiasm grows and younger voters turn out in impressive numbers. That will affect future campaigns and political positions from candidates. If turnout is low, there will be little reason for candidates to become more progressive in their positions.

Frankly, we won't know until after the general election in November. Influence begins at the ballot box, frankly. Politicians campaign to the demographics that turned out in the previous election. They always have.

[SpareribSP]

23. I can't see large groups of millennials voting for Trump at the very least.

Not even as a protest vote. People who actually pay attention to him for more than half a second realize it's a no-go, and that spotlight will just shine brighter as we head towards the election.

Excitement might lag with Hillary, but hopefully people will get fired up for downballot races, and it may get interesting and motivate people to vote if some states head more towards the swing-state category.

I'm not sure if voter turnout being low correlates directly towards less progressive positions, because you could also just take it to mean Hillary didn't woo millennials, and would have had more support if she did. You could also say that if millennials show up in large numbers that would validate centrist positions. I think that fight is going to be continue to be fought in a number of smaller battles down the line, but it's true that people will try harder in general for the youth vote if they turn up.

[riversedge]

25. Yes, getting that group out to actually vote is the real problem.