Young Voters Propelled Northam to Victory

[applegrove]

https://politicalwire.com/2017/11/10/young-voters-propelled-northam-victory/

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Andrew Sullivan: “The under-30s turnout in the Virginia governor’s race in 2009 was 17 percent; in 2013, it was 24 percent; this week it was 34 percent. And as young turnout surged, it became progressively more Democratic. In 2013, the under-30s split 45–40 percent for the Democrats; in 2016, in the presidential race, it was 54–36; last week it was 69–30. The third-party vote among the young also collapsed: from 15 percent in 2013 to one percent last Tuesday.”

“I draw a couple of inferences from this: Trump’s extraordinary success among older voters in 2016 has produced a backlash among younger voters in 2017, who are far less complacent than they were last year and ever-more repulsed by Trump’s racist reactionism. And the younger generation has learned one thing from 2016: Voting for your ideal candidate is less important than voting for the candidate that can effectively halt the advance of the far right. Better late than never, I suppose — and Charlottesville may have helped concentrate their minds.”

For members: Young Voters Will Decide the Future for Democrats


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[underpants]

1. Numbers count

Very interesting numbers.

Gillespie went so negative so early it was startling.
Northam, by all accounts, is just a really good man. That sold.

[NCTraveler]

2. Third party has been ditched.

Democrats seem to have benefited.

[blueinredohio]

3. I'm glad to see young people embracing diversity