{"id":16900,"date":"2016-05-17T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16900"},"modified":"2016-05-17T20:14:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T00:14:31","slug":"youth-turnout-in-the-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16900","title":{"rendered":"youth turnout in the primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterlevine.ws\">CIRCLE<\/a> for all the news on young people in the primaries and caucuses. The team <a href=\"http:\/\/civicyouth.org\/2016nebraskawestvirginiaprimaries\/\">reports<\/a> that about\u00a025% of West Virginia&#8217;s young people voted, many for Senator Bernie Sanders. The state&#8217;s turnout rate surpassed that of Iowa (11%), Florida (17%), and Virginia (18%), even though the race was\u00a0considered by many to be over before it reached West Virginia. Youth turnout was also 25% in <a href=\"http:\/\/civicyouth.org\/2016indianaprimary\/\">Indiana<\/a>, where a majority of\u00a0young people voted on the GOP side. Trump won a plurality of Indiana&#8217;s young Republican voters, but only narrowly edged Sen. Cruz. Finally, this is the latest cumulative youth vote tally:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/civicyouth.org\/total-youth-votes-in-2016-primaries-and-caucuses\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16912 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/April26CumulativeVotesGraph-1-1024x581.png\" alt=\"April26CumulativeVotesGraph\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/April26CumulativeVotesGraph-1-1024x581.png 1024w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/April26CumulativeVotesGraph-1-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/April26CumulativeVotesGraph-1-768x436.png 768w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/April26CumulativeVotesGraph-1.png 1668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Sanders has drawn almost three times more youth votes than any other candidate. Donald Trump surpasses Hillary Clinton, even though youth remain his weakest constituency on the GOP side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow CIRCLE for all the news on young people in the primaries and caucuses. The team reports that about\u00a025% of West Virginia&#8217;s young people voted, many for Senator Bernie Sanders. The state&#8217;s turnout rate surpassed that of Iowa (11%), Florida (17%), and Virginia (18%), even though the race was\u00a0considered by many to be over before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900","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=16900"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16917,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900\/revisions\/16917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}