Poll: Millennials disillusioned about midterm elections

[brooklynite]

Source: NBC News

Millennials are disillusioned about political institutions and the 2018 midterms, according to results from a new NBC News/GenForward survey.

The bimonthly survey found that in the past year, millennials' impression of the Democratic Party remained split between favorable and unfavorable views.

Unfavorable ratings of the Republican Party have been somewhat steady among millennials in the past year. Roughly 6 in 10 millennials have consistently expressed unfavorable impressions of the Republican Party, with consistently less than 3 in 10 expressing favorable views.

A plurality of millennials have consistently said they plan to vote for the Democratic candidate in the 2018 congressional elections in the past year, and around a quarter have said they plan to vote for the Republican candidate. A quarter have also said they don’t plan to vote for either party, or are not sure what they’ll do.



Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-millennials-disillusioned-about-midterm-elections-n904436

[nycbos]

1. I am very proud to call myself a millennial hating millennial.

My generation had been had crap. However we deserve it because we don't bother to vote and we make are decisions based on meme shared by Bernie Sanders a cranky old man who sounds like he missed nap time.

[SharonAnn]

60. If they don't vote, it won't get better. Bottom line.

[hatrack]

2. Well, they have two choices . . .

They can get the fuck over how disillusioned they feel, or they can resign themselves to spending their lives in the barrel.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

5. Poor dears. Pretty soon they'll have to learn to walk the picket line too

bc that's how a lot of bennies they take for granted got fought for. Like weekends insurance etc. Trust us...it takes 15 minutes and a drivers license or whatever to vote...months negotiating a contract, if they even get a chance to fight for one.

[Texin]

32. Hell, they're going to have more to worry about than walking a picket line. Howsa about a BREAD line

[lagomorph777]

42. Before we skewer millenials again, let's read the content of the story. The headline is a lie.

The actual story is about how millenials will be strong Democratic voters. The headline-writer lied about the story.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

46. I'm going by my OWN experience w younger kids voting.

And a disabled vet I tried to help vote this last primary. He was very nervous about not knowing. He went to a charter school surprisingly, or not. I hope they ARE motivated.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. Grr.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

4. Most

won't even vote. Ask a kid if he/she votes and ask them to describe the process. Most can't bc they don't vote. The ones I've talked to who don't, don't do it bc they are embarrassed they don't know how, and that gives them all the reason they need to not do what is already anathema to a lot of Americans...getting off the couch. Don't take my word for it. Do your own investigation.
TAKE YOUR KIDS W YOU WHEN THEY ARE TEENAGERS WHEN YOU VOTE. It teaches them how to do it, and shows them how long it takes...not very. It's important. Should be a whole chapter in civics classes...if they even get them anymore.

[wasupaloopa]

8. They can get a mail in ballot

Put it alongside the candidate’s views on issues and chose

They have weeks to do it

It is easier than learning a new game on the computer

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

11. Yes. Or just vote like the rest of civilization. Most kis will NOT take the 5 mins to do any of that

bc they've taken their rights for granted. They should be shown a local voting box in class and everyone get a chance to vote on it. Pretty easy stuff. If you cant get a kid to vote, someones dropped the ball. Namely, their parents.

[murielm99]

29. I started taking my kids with me when they were toddlers.

Also, there are sample ballots. They are in newspapers and online.

We have civics classes in Illinois. Teachers here register kids to vote when they turn eighteen. My daughter told me that in her civics class, some students did not want to register. They said their votes made no difference, or both parties were the same. Her teacher told them all right, then we won't have a democracy if everyone thinks like this. He said this calmly, with no partisan pitches.

Also, people can ask election judges to help them. Some years ago, we had a hotly contested school referendum in my community. Many parents who had never voted before voted in that election. I registered a lot of new voters. I told them to ask the election judges for help if they needed it. They did not need to be embarrassed. I was told by one election judge that she did get a lot of requests for help.

I think it is time for me to write an LTTE.

[Tucker08087]

52. Same here.

My son is only 15, but I don’t think it would even cross his mind NOT to vote. It’s Election Day. You vote. It’s your right and your responsibility. Every time.

[crazycatlady]

57. Sounds like a campaign can use the help of your son

Volunteering on a campaign is a good experience for high school students to get involved in the political process before they come of age.

Get him super involved and he may walk away with a letter of recommendation.

[Tucker08087]

59. He would LOVE that!

Great idea! Thanks!

[crazycatlady]

63. If your profile's right you're in a swing district

Not sure if your city is 2 or 3, but they're both hot races.

If you guys want to cross the border into PA, we can put the two of you on doors for a shift or 2

[MBS]

31. + 1000

I first started bringing my millennial son with me to the polls when he was 3 1/3 years old - and he remembers our standing in line, waiting to vote. It may be his earliest memory. (And I know it's an authentic memory, because that was the only time that I voted at that particular polling place>

He's now a grown-up and a faithful voter (as is his millennial wife); he's even volunteered to work as a poll worker in several elections.

As you said, show them the way.

[Mosby]

37. I learned how to vote in grade school

They would set up those machines with the levers and we would pretend to vote.

[lagomorph777]

43. I loved those machines!

We had 'em too! We used them in elections for school office, as training.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

45. I remember those too. The curtain, the little levers.

i liked voting like that. All tabulated when the curtain came back over. Ka-chunk.
I'm pretty sure they don't do that anymore in school. Even for new machines. Maybe.

[IncaRoads]

7. I'm technically a Millenial

And I'll say it again.

The 25% who are undecided are children in adult bodies, with no spines.

Don't like something? Don't worry about trying anything that will change it in any meaningful fashion. Post about it on Facebook.

Also, they don't want to grow up. They throw around terms like "adulting" anytime they do anything that has the hint of responsibility to it.

These are the Kidults who still think Harry Potter is real.

[Ilsa]

51. Take them to Niagara Falls and hand them a quaint broom.

And I don't think the "arresto momentum" spell will work.

[IncaRoads]

61. Hahahaha!

I heard three people my age have a 15 minute discussion over which "house" of HP character they belonged to.

[Nitram]

9. C'mon and buck up Millenials! Welcome to the real world. It's messy and not always fun, but if we

do the right thing, we can make a difference. So get out there and vote for a Democrat or two or three. That's the only way forward.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. "Millennials disillusioned about midterm elections"

That's because they consume fake news from snapchat and instagram.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

12. Certainly gives them the ammo to sit on their rear ends.

If they could vote by video game or fb post...100% compliance. They think THEYR'E disillusioned...

[BumRushDaShow]

17. The technology gave them more access to more people and viewpoints

which often resulted in non-political-oriented relationships.... So many of them are not as "partisan" as their parents. But I think (hope) they are seeing the extreme negative results of complete disengagement and will utilize that technology to muster some GOTV. Hell, they are quick to assemble a "flash mob" or "gathering" at a pop-up beer garden, so why not do the same for assembling at a polling place?

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

22. Amen to that.

[Snellius]

13. Young vote for hope. Old vote out of fear.

We can never lose the spirit of Obama, of change and renewal, or everything will get dragged back down by the vested forces that be.

[Me.]

14. And Thes Are The Ones Who Think We Should Change Our Leaderdhip

with younger people...like them

[BootinUp]

15. I'm getting disillusioned about the human race. Nt

[AlexSFCA]

16. they'd do it if they could vote on iphone

[llmart]

56. They'd do it if the draft was still in place.

[spicysista]

18. I would love to see this broken down by region.

Hearing this is always strange to me. My friends and I are very engaged. Take a look at what's happening across the south.... It's pretty exciting! Don't neglect your base, do the leg work, and continue to fight for justice. Other millennials will come around, eventually. We should focus on activating our base.

[AKing]

19. Yet last night I heard a report on MSNBC that Millenials were turning out in higher numbers...

I believe it was Steve Kornacki that said it

[Guilded Lilly]

20. We need millennials. We need their votes and support...

We can offer to teach them, we can guide them, we can share our fears and concerns but we can never “give” them our life experience.

Hell, we WERE them, once.

Continued communication without blaming any generation is a very very tough and often thankless chore.

Has been, always. This poll reveals nothing new about disillusionment.

But we can’t quit trying.

[PuppyBismark]

21. We can stick our head in the sand or we can give the Millennials a reason to vote Democratic

Just saying that the GOP alternative is bad does not work. We have clearly not been able to give them good reasons to like the Democratic alternative and have not shown them and the rest of the country what we want to do for everyone. We have failed to get out a message that is attractive to them.

Our opposition has done a great job painting us in their terms and we just sit here and take it.

[we can do it]

30. "Give them a reason"??? Really??

[leftynyc]

33. Give them a reason??????

Have the little darlings not been paying attention to the news since 2016? The republicans are stacking the courts with anti-women, anti-gay, anti-working man, anti-environment slugs at an alarming rate. Regulations for clean air and clean water are being destroyed. WTF do these CHILDREN want? Grow the fuck up.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

48. I love the alternative. Matter of fact Id put my life on the line for the "alternative"

Democrats have made my life better in so many ways. I hope someday every video playing, phone attached kid grasps the fact that most things that are good...came from a Democrat rolling up their sleeves and putting a foot in the ass of a repub or 'Ind.", after running for office and winning. Its my desire that introspective young Americans don't ever have to learn how bad it can be. Bc it CAN be very bad, very very easy. Don't be the guy who only changes bc something has touched them. You're new. You'll see.
If you haven't seen a message...you haven't looked. Maybe spend the day scrolling down through a few months posts? I dunno.
YOU start today w a paintbrush of your own as well and start coloring in the picture too. You think maybe?
Welcome to DU.

[PuppyBismark]

54. I have been here for years

Everyone here assumes that the whole world is as well informed as we are. Well that just isn’t true. We (the Democratic Party) need to find a way to get through to the country. Clearly we have failed and or our opposition is much better at publicity or is is it propaganda.

Expecting the country to understand without our help is just putting our heads in the sand.

Many people I talk to feel both parties are as bad as the other. The Democratic leadership has failed us and the country when it comes to communication.

[NickB79]

62. The world is literally on fucking fire

We're at the precipice of dooming the global biosphere to the largest mass extinction since the dinosaurs, and the GOP wants to pour gas (coal) on the blaze. What else will motivate these assholes if goddamn self-preservation doesn't?

[SWBTATTReg]

23. Not all kids are like this...Mr. David Hogg is different, and is engaged in the whole process...nt

[crazycatlady]

40. David Hogg is not a millennial

He was born in 2000, clearly putting him in Gen Z.

[SWBTATTReg]

44. He's still a kid...I didn't realize that there's a distinction of a few years...

He's still engaged in the voting process, and I commend him for it...

[crazycatlady]

55. Gen Z is the one coming of age now

Their start year is 1995-1996. They're the kids (that if around at all) were too young to remember 9/11.

[pecosbob]

24. Remember that this is the same network

along with the WSJ that just published the results of a poll that declared Gump's favorability rating as 'remarkably stable'. Do not drink the koolaid folks...they will continue to attempt to discourage you from voting...so VOTE!

The corporate media will do anything and everything they can to keep R's in control...don't let that happen.

[rockfordfile]

25. So now NBC is gonna put down millennials

NBC and the Murdoch rag Wall Street Journal already attempted to inflate trump poll numbers.

[brooklynite]

26. Are you saying that the polling is false?

And that the same news agency backing up Maddow, O'Donnell etc. is backing up Trump?

[still_one]

35. I am saying the question itself makes the poll bullshit. Ask a negative question, 9/10 you will get

a negative answer

How about ask a simple question, will you vote Democratic or Republican in November.

No qualifiers, no inflections, just a simple binary question

as far as you take that they have Maddow and O'Donnell on, that means nothing to them. It is about money, and they don't care how they generate it, whether it is left or right.

Remeber it was NBC who interviewed both trump and Hillary, and how Hillary was given every hardball question in the book, while trump was given a free pass

[Magoo48]

27. Baby boomer here, white male...1948 model.

It requires a lot of faded memory, or out and out willful delusion, for anyone from my generation to criticize any of those who came after us considering the immaculate rat fucking we gave the world and it’s future inhabitants. From environmental horrors to political corruption and most of what lies in between. When we grew up, we fucked up.

[0rganism]

28. "disillusioned"? their disillusionment is an illusion!

oh well, i remember when i was young and thought i had all the answers. it's a fancy feeling, that your predecessors were flat-out wrong and you've got the recipe to make it right -- very Trumpy, very immature. and then you get to work on the issues and find out it's really not that simple. THAT is disillusionment.

unfortunately, the millennials don't have a whole lot of time remaining to find out the truth. the secular democracy to which they've grown accustomed is about to fade away, along with the clean air and water. they're sitting on a ticking time bomb and pretending apathy is a viable long-term approach. they're about to be disillusioned in ways they can't even imagine.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

49. Gods so true. +100.

[Zoonart]

53. +1000

Buck up little buckeroos!

[still_one]

34. F**K THE MEDIA. They have been pushing this division theme between Democrats since 2000, and the

republicans love it.

In fact that is their strategy

The important thing is that we don't get distracted or misled by these assholes

The media's motivation is to stir the pot thinking it will gain them viewership, and the republicans do it as a strategy to win the midterms

We have had enough of these assholes doing this, and its is time we ignore those who do not have the country or the Democratic parties interest, and GET OUT THE VOTE, and show these assholes that we know what they are up to, and we aren't going to be misled again

[Mosby]

36. they could have stopped at "millennials disillusioned..."

The last midterm in 2014 a whopping 17% of 18-29 year olds voted.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

50. The red wave that looked so surreal...bc it was. Already we had been corrupted.

It was putins thumb in the eye of Obama. It was shocking and I knew immediately it didnt reflect what I saw on the ground...(AND Im very very LOW to the ground, that way...)

[RhodeIslandOne]

38. Election Day is a Tuesday

Probably a new video game coming out. Can’t be bothered to vote.

[lagomorph777]

39. Dishonest headline mis-characterizes the content of the story.

"Millennials are disillusioned" doesn't square with

"Unfavorable ratings of the Republican Party have been somewhat steady among millennials"

and

"A plurality of millennials have consistently said they plan to vote for the Democratic candidate in the 2018 congressional elections in the past year, and around a quarter have said they plan to vote for the Republican candidate"

The real headline is "Millenials strongly support Democrats"

[Kaleva]

41. +1

[SpankMe]

47. There's a cure for this.

It's called "voting", bitches.

[LenaBaby61]

58. A quarter have also said they don't plan to vote for either party, or are not sure what they'll do.

I'll tell you what, those not voting and disillusioned to the point of not voting, better be prepared to live on the streets or in their parent's basements. That's if their parents still own their own homes and haven't used it as a piggy bank (Mortgaged it). It's bad enough many millennials have degrees and work slinging fast food (Several friends children have their Masters but work slinging fast food and are hundreds of thousands in student loan debt). They'll never get out of their debt slinging fast food, especially those who owe HUGE amounts of student loan debt. Student loan debt is the biggest problem we have emerging on the horizon, and especially so thanks to tRump and Ditzy privatizing it FOR profit.

It's about to explode and cause real problems for our economy

For those millennials who do vote, thank you! for thinking about yourselves. For those who don't, oh well

[Cadfael]

64. This just feels like another attempt to sow division in our ranks

Same old story, new headline.

Buried further in the story is this nugget: “Millennials have unfailingly had a more positive outlook toward the Democratic Party than toward the Republican Party in NBC News/GenForward survey trend data. They are not overwhelmingly enthused to vote in November, however.”

I’m not “overwhelmingly enthused” across the board by my options in November, but I’m damned sure going to vote! And I think we can count on millenials to understand at least some of what’s at stake...look at the “March for Our Lives”.

I’m a 57 year old who is optimistic for the positive influence the millenials will have on our country.
Pessimism isn’t going to save us.

[CBHagman]

65. Midterms are like going to work on Monday morning. Discussion is not an option...

...unless you are at death's door.

Here in the United States all the heat and light are concentrated on the presidential election years, but the midterms determine who will get to vote on judges and draw congressional districts and so much more. It's not exciting but it is a life-or-death vote.