Hillary Clinton, Snapchat, selfies and the road to wooing millennials [View all]

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/10/hillary-clinton-millennial-voters-iowa-caucus

It's a positive article generally about the two Dem leading candidates.

The unleashing of Dunham, with her tribe of young, feminist followers, is part of a concerted effort to attract the young and the cool to Clinton’s increasingly confident campaign.

While Clinton maintains a commanding national lead in the race for the Democratic nomination her surprise challenger from the left, 74-year-old Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, has attracted many young voters. Indeed, an NBC poll of Iowa voters released on Sunday put him on 45% support, only 3% behind Clinton.
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“Nobody thought that young people would do what they did in 2008, until they did,” Della Volpe said. “This is a constituency that can still play a big role in determining the nominee of both parties.”

Therefore, Clinton is leaving nothing to fate – posing for selfies with supporters and celebrities, joining Snapchat, touring campus colleges, dancing on Ellen DeGeneres’ TV show, ribbing Donald Trump (and herself) on Saturday Night Live, and even taping a segment for a Comedy Central show, Broad City.