{"id":15221,"date":"2015-05-14T15:42:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T19:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=15221"},"modified":"2015-05-14T15:43:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T19:43:02","slug":"will-young-voters-prefer-younger-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=15221","title":{"rendered":"will young voters prefer younger candidates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are often asked whether young people prefer\u00a0young(er) candidates, and this question is arising again as Sen. Marco Rubio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2015\/04\/28\/marco-rubio-embraces-his-youth-in-presidential-campaign\/\">emphasizes his relative youth<\/a> as a selling point. CIRCLE has now collected evidence&#8211;which I find pretty\u00a0compelling&#8211;that\u00a0the age of a candidate is a very modest factor in influencing young voters, if it matters at all. See &#8220;<a title=\"Permanent Link: Does the Age of a Presidential Candidate Matter to Young Voters?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/does-the-age-of-a-presidential-candidate-matter-to-young-voters\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Does the Age of a Presidential Candidate Matter to Young Voters?<\/a>,&#8221; which is new on the CIRCLE website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are often asked whether young people prefer\u00a0young(er) candidates, and this question is arising again as Sen. Marco Rubio emphasizes his relative youth as a selling point. CIRCLE has now collected evidence&#8211;which I find pretty\u00a0compelling&#8211;that\u00a0the age of a candidate is a very modest factor in influencing young voters, if it matters at all. See &#8220;Does [&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":[32,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-election","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15221","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=15221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15273,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15221\/revisions\/15273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}