Millennials are more liberal than the politicians they elected

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5. Trust me, it is not without trying

I'm a field staffer for campaigns and I know all about voter turnout. In 2009, we gave them the "they're counting you out, prove them wrong" speech and sometimes it worked, but it was only the ones we got to.

Another issue is that younger people's voting history fails to put them in the 'likely voter' models you hear a lot from pollsters. With the exception of when I had groups of younger people, I barely did any youth outreach. Instead I talked to 'likely voters' who had voted in the 2000, 2004, and 2008 presidentials and tried to get them to vote for our candidate. (I was with a congressional campaign in a swing state, and OFA was very aggressive about voter registration and going after voters on the two large college campuses in my district, so I left that to them).