'Millennials Didn’t Vote This Year, Like At All' (Philadelphia Mayoral Primary)

[onehandle]

Ah, the youth vote. Or lack there of...
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Voter turnout among millennials was abysmal in the mayoral election.

The gist: Only 12 percent of registered voters between the ages of 18 and 34 cast a ballot in Philadelphia’s mayoral election, according to newly released data from the City Commissioners office. Millennials make up the largest bloc of registered voters in the city, though you wouldn’t know it on Election Day. As BillyPenn reported, “There are 71,000 more registered millennials than people age 35-to-49, 82,000 more than people age 50-to-64 and 140,000 more than people age 65 and up. And yet those respective age groups beat the millennials in voter turnout by about 20,000, 53,000 and 42,000.”

http://www.phillymag.com/citified/2015/06/11/millennials-vote-philly

[leftofcool]

1. I doubt they will show up in 2016.

[onehandle]

2. I think there will be a jump in the female numbers.

You know what I mean...

[leftofcool]

4. Yes I do.

[still_one]

3. and why would they? We have been told by very "wise" people there is no difference between the 2

parties

Just look at healthcare, women's rights, abortion rights, voting rights, environmental protections, privatization of social security and Medicare, etc.

Yup, absolutely no difference



Note scarcasm

[Agnosticsherbet]

5. If they don't vote, then the deserve what ever their government does

that hurts them.

The chose to be part of the problem rather than work for the solution.

[KamaAina]

6. Why do they even bother to register, then?

[onehandle]

7. Voter registration is very aggressive here.

I mean that in a good way.

There are frequently tables set up on college campuses, at street fairs, shopping areas, and other random places.

But getting them to 'go somewhere' on election day? A different story.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. Well by all means, the best course of action would be to ignore them and their concerns then.

Certainly better to take a single urban off-year mayoral election as an excuse for snarky exhortations to get off our lawn-

best to not do any soul-searching as to what issues might motivate them to turn out for our candidates in 2016, or anything crazy like that.

[bravenak]

9. Thank you!

[Warren DeMontague]

12. You've gotta remember- especially on DU- the Boomers are only vaguely aware you guys exist.

They still tend to think my generation is working at Starbucks and listening to "That Nirvana"

[bravenak]

13. Lol! So true! We are invisible to them and you barely register to serve their food.

And they wonder why we don't rush out to vote for their causes.

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Well Millenials in large part gave us Obama's 2 terms.

You'd think the occasional thanks would be in order.

[bravenak]

16. Thanks would be better than the big fuck you we get after each election.

[Warren DeMontague]

17. Not From Me!

But I still don't understand the waxed mustache thing.

[bravenak]

18. Omgwtf...

[Zorra]

19. A smart, young, very liberal minority hottie as Bernie's VP will

bring many of them out.

[Warren DeMontague]

21. I agree that we need to broaden our bench of candidates beyond East Coast Boomers.

The only names that come to my mind immediately are Newsom and Harris, though.

[davidn3600]

10. Why would they? In their view it makes no difference

Low job prospects. High college tuition.

It doesn't seem to matter. Hillary Clinton supports more H-1B visas so companies like Disney can lay off Americans and hire cheaper foreign labor.

Sure you got some guys like Bernie Sanders advocating for free college. But how does that help these people now who have trillions of dollars in combined student debt? Telling them college will be free for kids in middle school right now won't motivate young voters old enough to vote today.

[NobodyHere]

11. If they actually voted

Then politicians might actually do something about their job prospects and college tuition.

[WestCoastLib]

20. Unfortunately, they still wouldn't.

Edit: Speaking of the politicians, not the milennials

[JI7]

14. politics is boRing for many