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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Youth vote 2008: 66% for Obama / Youth vote 2016 55% for Hillary [View all]JHB
(37,794 posts)18. Well, for starters, they spent their whole lives in a bubble of anti-Clinton foam...
The "youth vote" of today was born in the 1990s. Except for the oldest among them, the Right has been foaming against the Clintons for literally their entire lives... and for that eldest cohort, all of their lives that they can actually remember.
Part of the background noise of their existence has been the Right Wing raging against Bill and Hillary as the Avatars of Everyting They Hate (tm).
Even If they don't agree, this saturating background radiation has its effect.
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Youth vote 2008: 66% for Obama / Youth vote 2016 55% for Hillary [View all]
Jean-Jacques Roussea
Dec 2016
OP
I saw a round table discussion with a group of first graders concernig the candidates.
lapucelle
Dec 2016
#23
Sanders would've broke a hip, but Hillary could've really done to invoke those "identity politics"
Jean-Jacques Roussea
Dec 2016
#17
But his margin in 2012 narrowed despite his being young, cool, etc. A YUGE factor in 2008
spooky3
Dec 2016
#26