Mainstream Media Gets Schooled On Why Millennial Sanders Supporters Will Vote For Clinton

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I also think that most will come home and vote for the Dem nominee. #ShesWithUS


Mainstream Media Gets Schooled On Why Millennial Sanders Supporters Will Vote For Clinton


http://www.politicususa.com/2016/05/15/mainstream-media-schooled-millennial-sanders-supporters-vote-clinton.html



By Jason Easley on Sun, May 15th, 2016 at 12:31 pm

The media got a taste of reality as they were forced to face the truth that millennial Bernie Sanders supporters care about the issues and will support Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump.


Transcript via ABC’s This Week:

KARL: I want to at least get Alicia on these Millennials because you’ve spent a lot of time talking to them. Are those Millennials that have been 90 percent in some of these states for Hillary Clinton really going to around — I mean, for Bernie Sanders, really going to turn around and say OK I’m for Hillary?

ALICIA MENENDEZ, “FUSION”: So, we’ve been doing these focus groups throughout the primary talking with young voters who I think it’s important to remember like young I’m talking sometime people my age, 32, want to get married…

KARL: Very young, by the way, just for the record.

MENENDEZ: Yeah, but like — they’re not children. And we are so investing in this election, paying such close attention. When I talk to Bernie Sanders supporters, it is the policies that they are after, right. They like Bernie, but really it is a number of those policies that you just indicated.

But when you really push them and you say, if it comes down to Trump versus Clinton who will you vote for, over and over again you hear that they will show up for Hillary Clinton even if, to them, that is a distasteful choice. If that is the choice that they have to make in November, they’ll come home.

The early polling backs up what Menendez said. The Harvard IOP Spring Poll of millennials found that younger voters are flocking to Democrats because they hate Trump. Clinton leads Trump by 36 points with millennial voters. Trump’s net unfavorable rating with younger voters is (-57). Trump’s unfavorable rating with young Republicans is a net (-20).................

[Skwmom]

1. Yeah, that corporate propaganda media is really believable.

[msongs]

2. extremists believe falsely that the millenials are some sort of uniform contingent nt

[Armstead]

5. By extremists you mean anyone to the left of Clinton, right?

Speaking of making false generalizations.

[msongs]

6. I mean anybody who thinks millenials are a unfified block who will do their bidding nt

[sadoldgirl]

3. You really believe this garbage after what

happened in the open in NV?
The boogeyman does not work anymore!

[Armstead]

4. I am so proud that so many young peple have to make a distasteful choice

Welcome youngsters to the Democratic Party.

If you think its ONLY purpose is to prevent truly truly awful REpublicans from winning elections........Well, welcome to the world of many Democrats for the last 35 years.

It's become the "At least we're not them" party.

[840high]

7. My grandsons had a good

laugh reading this.

[nemo137]

8. Most millenials my age (late 20s/early 30s) seem to be falling in to two camps

Because the Bush Admin and Iraq War were so central to our political awareness, and then we graduated into the bottom of the recession, folks are torn between "I can't vote for her, she voted for the IWR" and "holy shitsnacks, do you assholes remember the Bush Administration? We can't let that happen again."

One thing I really haven't seen from my cohort is any suggestion that Trump would somehow be better than Clinton. Folks have concerns about Clinton, and I have a few Facebook friends who are Bernie-or-Bust-curious, but even the Sanders voters I know (and I was one in the primary) tend to be more concerned with not burning everything down around them, not revolutionaries.

I would really like to see polling about the difference between older and younger millenials/post-millenials, because of this. My gut impression is that folks a couple ticks younger than me are stronger for Bernie, and I would bet that the difference in ages during Bush II/Iraq/GWOT/Great Recession explains it.