Young people are the most progressive generation in history.

[Uncle Joe]

37. Bernie got more votes from Americans under 30 years old than Clinton and Trump combined.

Based on estimates from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), a research group at Tufts University, which reviewed vote tallies and exit/entrance polls, Sanders garnered more than 2 million votes from 18- to 29-year-olds while Trump and Clinton received a combined 1.6 million votes.

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Based on CNN exit polls from 27 states during the 2016 primaries, Sanders won a slim majority of African American votes among those under 30 and a wider majority among Hispanics in the same age group. 52% of black women in this category voted for Sanders while 47% voted for Clinton. Among black men under 30, 50% voted for Sanders and 48% for Clinton.
Among Hispanic voters, the range is much wider. Thirty-one percent of Hispanic men under 30 voted for Clinton while 69% voted for Sanders. For the women in this category the numbers are similar, 32% for Clinton and 68% for Sanders.

When asked about the minority vote claim, the Sanders campaign pointed to a June 2016 survey of young people conducted by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in which majorities of respondents who identified as African American, Asian American or Latino said they thought Sanders best understood the problems of people like them.


https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/26/politics/fact-check-bernie-sanders-town-hall-youth-vote/index.html

As for 1972, Nixon had been actively engaged in disenfranchising his political opponents; young people and blacks from voting and they were still able to turn out at 55%

Report: Aide says Nixon's war on drugs targeted blacks, hippies

Washington (CNN)One of Richard Nixon's top advisers and a key figure in the Watergate scandal said the war on drugs was created as a political tool to fight blacks and hippies, according to a 22-year-old interview recently published in Harper's Magazine.

"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people," former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper's writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday.

"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlichman said. "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

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https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.html