"Swing Voters Draw the Line at Socialists": New Polling Suggests Key Voters Are Skeptical on Bernie

[Downtown Hound]

17. You: "We're going to reject anyone we consider too liberal, and not give it a second thought"

Also you: supports Amy Klobuchar, the empathy candidate.

I'm not knocking the notion of a swing voter. I'm saying that they're not nearly as important as you think they are because the electorate is much different this year than it has ever been. There are only two age brackets where Trump has a net positive approval rating, and those are boomers and silents. And even among those generations, it's only a little bit positive. Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z will comprise more than 60% of the electorate in 2020. Gen X leans liberal, Gen Z and Millennials are overwhelmingly liberal. Get enough of those generations out to vote, and Trump will lose.

I'm not knocking the idea of swing voters. I'm knocking the idea that we need to pander to them so much wile ignoring the fact that we have the power to overwhelmingly defeat Trump without them if we can just inspire enough young people to vote. And Sanders is by far the most popular candidate running amongst those age groups.

https://www.axios.com/2020-presidential-election-millennials-generation-z-8c54a77a-c6f5-40bc-850c-95e4f1217e62.html