Young voters could have had Bernie this year (or in 2016) just by voting at the same rate as fifty-year-olds, and why they chose not to do it is a persistent political mystery. They turn out in enormous numbers to the rallies, but don't vote, even when voting is made very easy
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Are young registered voters, expressed intention to vote, etc, actually up that much? I mean, Sanders has really enthusiastic supporters compared to opponents, but kinda imagine most already cared and were predisposed to vote either way, and the rest don't care and never did.
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Not American, but I've known young people who think all candidates in my country were mostly the same and not very exciting, but still voted, while most other young people just paid no attention and had no real opinion, and didn't care, so they didn't.
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Some day, some candidate is going to find a way to unlock those votes for real, and win the greatest landslide of all time. Some real 520 to 18 type stuff. Banking on it as an election strategy though, is equivalent to using the Powerball as your retirement fund.
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You are exactly right. It's the nuclear fusion of American politics. Whoever cracks the problem open will be in office as long as they want
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This is true! It drives my students nuts, so we often spend a lot of time talking about this issue in class. As you know, at least for the years we have good data, young people have *never* voted as much as older people, so it's not just a generational thing.
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It's *relatively* easy to get college students to vote and turnout for stuff (higher SES, peer pressure effects). It's much harder to get their non-college peers to show up.
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