Posted on 11/13/2016 8:29:37 AM PST by Deo volente
In 2008, when Barack Obama first captured the enthusiasm of millennials across America, 67 percent of voters aged 18-29 cast their ballots for the nation’s first African American president.
Eight years later, with a chance to elect America’s first female president, an estimated 55 percent – or 13 million of the 23.7 million under-30 millennials who voted – chose Clinton, according to exit poll data from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE).
“There’s been a clear drop-off in enthusiasm,” Paul Taylor, author of “The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown,” said on Wednesday.
“Millennials have the most stake in how our country precedes. So to what degree will they engage in and be activated by politics now? It’s an open question.”
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Yeah. I am sure they like living in the basement with poor job prospects and the opportunity to inherit the country’s crushing debt.
I know many first voters who did not go feeling mistrust in the system after the Bernie issue.
I visit college campus often.
I saw lots of “underground” support for Trump that I never saw with Romney.
Posters, laptops, T shirts, frat displays, etc.
Lib-bots blame everyone and everything except that Clinton is who she is and that Trump simply won, and won Bigly.
Several young people of our acquaintance said they were either going to write in Bernie or leave the president block blank. They would not vote Clinton. We praised them for sticking to their principles.
Yes, everyone wants to get in the act by offering obtuse explainations of Trump’s win. And they almost never factor their own faults in explaining their loss. The truth would be simple but hit too close to home for them.
Good job! All of you did the right thing!
“Did millennial apathy propel Trump election?”
Don’t know....but I can tell you they are busily working to propel him to another landslide in 2020.
I’m glad gen Xers didn’t do this crap. Boomers in the 60’s and millenials today.
Apathy? Um, no.
Stupidity born of indoctrination.
Raise the voting age to 30!
I doubt I would have ever supported the job killing policies of the left. Even if I was younger than I am (b. 1984)
I suspect millennial frustration helped Trump; I’m sure some voted for him, while others refused to support Clinton for four more years of a sh!t sandwich.
70% of jobs will be replaced by automation, no matter who the president is. STOP subsidizing Sociology degrees, and get Millenials into tech...or the Chinese and Indians will take those jobs.
The H1B program is because the lib left learning establishment has failed
All of this demographic analysis is interesting, but not very primal and instincts are the biggest driver when we make choices.
When there is no incumbent, every voter is voting for some kind of change, and voting for personal qualities. The candidate that offers the safest and most promising change will win.
Hillary is only able to offer a continuation of Obama’s policies, to do otherwise would be a Democrat betrayal. She was always handicapped with protecting Obama’s legacy.
That legacy has been constantly eroding for years, witness the Republican gains in Congress. Hillary never could articulate any policies that pushed back on Obama. Her campaign was always fatally flawed.
That is why Sanders did so well, he offered legitimate change.
There is another kind of change that voters reached for - a change back to a more orderly society. All the rioting in support of the Black Lives Matter nonsense was driven by Hillary, as obviously Trump directly refuted it.
Finally, when we hire someone, we look for personal qualities such as work ethic, energy, boldness and drive. Clearly, Trump outworked Hillary and that quality trumped all of his weaknesses.
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