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In reply to the discussion: How can Democrats win this election? [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Just like older people, voters just old enough to vote want jobs, and they want jobs that they've trained for, not just 'burger flipping jobs'. Quality of the job matters. They also want higher pay for any job they have to work, since, by and large, minimum wage jobs are also, oddly enough, suckier jobs to work than higher paid jobs.
They also don't want to be drowned in student loan debt, especially debt that's going to stick with them forever. Student loans need to be either no-interest, or *very* low interest, and the government needs to crack down harder on 'drop-out mills'.
And yeah, stereotype though it might be, they wouldn't mind marijuana legalization.
Those are the things I hear about from younger folks. I do kind of expect to hear more about birth control and reproductive choice issues in the not too distant future, but haven't really seen it cropping up much lately.