{"id":17538,"date":"2016-10-18T17:16:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T21:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=17538"},"modified":"2016-10-18T17:50:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T21:50:34","slug":"state-of-the-youth-vote-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=17538","title":{"rendered":"state of the youth vote in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CIRCLE has <a href=\"http:\/\/civicyouth.org\/exclusive-circle-poll-on-millennial-attitudes-about-presidential-election-contact-by-campaignsparties\/\">begun to release results<\/a> from its survey of 1,605 Americans\u00a0between the ages of 18 and 34. CIRCLE&#8217;s headlines\u00a0are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most Millennials paying attention to presidential election, but far fewer to congressional elections<\/li>\n<li>30% of Clinton supporters contacted by campaigns, 28% of young Trump supporters contacted, 70% not contacted at all<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Contact is important because it gives the recipients information and motivation to vote. These contact rates are disturbing low&#8211;and also uneven by region, gender, and party. Young men who live in battleground states have been contacted at\u00a0nearly twice the rate of young women in \u201csafe\u201d states (38% vs. 20%).<\/p>\n<p>Among likely young voters, Clinton beat Trump by 21 points (49% vs. 28%) in this poll, which was conducted between\u00a0September 21 and October 3, 2016. USA Today\/Rock the Vote released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/pr\/2016\/10\/17\/new-usa-todayrtv-poll-finds-clintons-support-among-millennials-grows\/92308856\/\">youth poll<\/a> yesterday that put the margin at\u00a068%\/20%. I&#8217;m not sure whether that difference\u00a0results from methodological choices, such as the way the surveys define\u00a0likely voters and present third-party candidates; but it is interesting that USA Today\/RtV were in the field on\u00a0October 11-13. The difference <em>could<\/em> therefore suggest a\u00a0substantial\u00a0improvement in Clinton&#8217;s margin since September.<\/p>\n<p>The CIRCLE <a href=\"http:\/\/civicyouth.org\/exclusive-circle-poll-on-millennial-attitudes-about-presidential-election-contact-by-campaignsparties\/\">release<\/a>\u00a0presents\u00a0additional information about young people&#8217;s attitudes, including this chart that compares the words that Trump supporters and Clinton supporters used to describe their own favored candidate.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/civicyouth.org\/exclusive-circle-poll-on-millennial-attitudes-about-presidential-election-contact-by-campaignsparties\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/civicyouth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PollGraph3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"904\" height=\"502\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIRCLE has begun to release results from its survey of 1,605 Americans\u00a0between the ages of 18 and 34. CIRCLE&#8217;s headlines\u00a0are: Most Millennials paying attention to presidential election, but far fewer to congressional elections 30% of Clinton supporters contacted by campaigns, 28% of young Trump supporters contacted, 70% not contacted at all Contact is important because [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-election"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17538","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=17538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17540,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17538\/revisions\/17540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}