{"id":10052,"date":"2012-10-29T09:35:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T13:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=10052"},"modified":"2012-11-04T11:48:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T16:48:10","slug":"obama-at-52-and-romney-at-35-among-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=10052","title":{"rendered":"Obama at 52% and Romney at 35% among youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CIRCLE today released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/?p=4579\">poll<\/a> of young people\u2019s views of the election. Our survey, commissioned by the Youth Education Fund, is unique in that it polled 1,695 youth (ages 18-29) in June\/July and 1,109 of the same youth between October 21 and 23. Surveying the same people twice provides powerful evidence of change over time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The proportion saying they are extremely likely to vote has risen 9.9 points, from 44.7% to 54.6%. Two-thirds (67.3%) of young adults are \u201cvery\u201d or \u201cextremely\u201d likely to vote, up 7.1 percentage points since June\/July.<\/li>\n<li>The proportion who are paying attention to the election has also risen, from 56.1% to 71%.<\/li>\n<li>If the election were held today, Obama would win the youth vote by 52.1% to 35.1% among those registered voters who are \u201cextremely likely to vote.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My quote from our press release: &#8220;The conventional wisdom holds that youth enthusiasm is down compared to 2008,&#8221; said CIRCLE Director Peter Levine. &#8220;But intent to vote is rising fast. President Obama has a majority of likely young voters behind him, but a significant proportion are open to voting for Governor Romney, who has a clear opportunity to improve over John McCain\u2019s record-low support in 2008.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I will be on MSNBC around 11:30 am eastern today, on WGBH-Boston&#8217;s Innovation Hub at around 1 pm today, and on KALW-San Franciso at 10 am Pacific tomorrow to discuss, and later I will post the audio or video here.<\/p>\n<p>[Update: actually, MSNBC cancelled to cover Sandy 24\/7. But the WGBH discussion with host Kara Miller and the Pew Research Center&#8217;s Paul Taylor is available online, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgbhnews.org\/post\/will-youth-vote\">here<\/a>. And the KALW discussion with Ali Budner (the host) and Lee Rowland of the Brennan Center and Tova Andrea Wang of Demos is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalw.org\/post\/today-your-call-who-s-voting-2012\">here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIRCLE today released a poll of young people\u2019s views of the election. Our survey, commissioned by the Youth Education Fund, is unique in that it polled 1,695 youth (ages 18-29) in June\/July and 1,109 of the same youth between October 21 and 23. Surveying the same people twice provides powerful evidence of change over time. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-election"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10052"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10117,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052\/revisions\/10117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}