Why are Bernie Sanders's supporters advancing a false narrative that young people favor Sen Sanders?
People tend to forget that Mitt Romney won the white millennial vote in 2012. President Obama won the overall millennial vote due to young African Americans and Latinos turning out and voting for him.
A small segment of young white liberals might prefer Senator Sanders, but it doesn't mean he is a favorite among young African Americans and Latinos. Indeed, the polling results in Iowa show that people of color overwhelmingly voted for Secretary Clinton. Among the non-whites, Hillary won 58% compared to the 34% of Bernie's.
Let's talk about who the "millennials" favor after we give states with higher concentration of African Americans and Latinos a chance to vote.
So, can the Bernie Sanders's supporters stop advancing a false narrative that young people favor Sen. Sanders? If you want to be accurate, you can say "young white liberals" support Bernie Sanders.
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And let's not forget the popularity of Ron Paul among the same demographic.
Voters under 30 broke for Sanders by 70 points.
Zach Carter - HuffPo
02/02/2016 10:24 am ET | Updated 10 hours ago
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WASHINGTON -- The final tallies in Monday's Iowa caucus showed a very narrow win for Hillary Clinton. But one demographic divide between the two candidates was not even close: Clinton is popular with older people. Millennials love Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
Entrance polls of caucusgoers show Clinton besting Sanders with voters over 45. They also show Sanders crushing Clinton with everyone else, including a 70-point margin among voters under 30. As Sarah Kliff at Vox notes, that's an even bigger slice of the Iowa youth vote than a senator from Illinois named Barack Obama took back in 2008 (he got 57 percent). Sanders also bested Clinton 58 to 37 among voters aged 30 to 44.
Today's Democratic Party isn't the same coalition that gave Bill Clinton the presidency in the 1990s. While Democrats at the time savored his electoral strength, the major elements of his governing legacy -- welfare reform, Wall Street deregulation and tough-on-crime criminal justice policies -- were Republican priorities.
Clinton supporters have long insisted that such "triangulation" with the GOP was essential to the Democratic Party remaining relevant in the post-Reagan era. But the financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession changed the political playing field. Today's Democratic base is far more skeptical of corporate power than the party of the 1990s was. A bipartisan consensus has emerged that Bill's GOP-backed crime bill fueled mass incarceration. Even conservative boosters of his welfare reform have acknowledged that it fails during the recessions, hurting the poor.
For older voters, the partisan fights of the 1980s and 1990s were formative political experiences. They see Hillary Clinton and the broader Democratic Party establishment as figures who survived relentless Republican attacks (which they did). But Sanders' massive 84 to 14 margin over Clinton among voters under 30 shows that the party's future is eager to break with its past. This is a wing of the party that wanted to see Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) run for president on an anti-Wall Street platform, which Sanders has adopted. It's a wing of the party that is uneasy with a candidate who served on Walmart's board of directors and made millions of dollars giving speeches to Wall Street, even after her family had amassed a nine-figure fortune.
It is, in short, the wing of the party whose worldview was shaped more by the banking crash than the Reagan era -- a generation angry about income inequality which does not trust the generation that created the problem to fix it.
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More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-iowa-caucus_us_56b0bf13e4b0a1b96203a505
And unpalatable it seems.
Now they're doing damage control by making up things to fit the narrative, like only "white" millennials voted for him - except there's no evidence of that. But they continue to SPIN SPIN SPIN!!!
We all know that iowa is the most liberal state in the union 
No one is being denied a "chance to vote", that I can see. And, as far as I can tell, people support candidates because of issues, not who else they think will be voting for them. I doubt anyone here at DU is supporting Bernie because of some demographic breakdown.
Would like to mention that counting on demographics might bite some campaign in the ass, anyway - if Rubio is the GOP nominee, perhaps, when given the choice between a real Latino and one who just talks about Latinos, voters will choose the real Latino. 
