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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I know I keep harping on this, but I just can't understand it. Sanders's movement is real and passionate, so was Howard Dean's, so was a raft of others. But between the under-30 voter and the voting booth falls The Shadow
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People are full of just-so stories about how the kids have classes to attend, and the lines for voting are 10 hours long, they don't have a steady address, and any other excuse you can mention, but this age pattern among *registered voters* holds true in vote-by-mail states too
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I imagine this must be incredibly frustrating to the young supporters who would move heaven and earth to win these votes, if they were available. But the bitter, bitter lesson in American politics is that they're called non-voters for a reason.
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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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