{"id":22971,"date":"2020-06-30T13:48:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T17:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=22971"},"modified":"2022-01-16T14:43:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T19:43:19","slug":"some-highlights-from-the-new-circle-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=22971","title":{"rendered":"some highlights from the new CIRCLE survey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CIRCLE&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/circle.tufts.edu\/latest-research\/poll-young-people-believe-they-can-lead-change-unprecedented-election-cycle\">new survey<\/a> of 2,232\u00a0young citizens (ages 18-29) is out. Among the findings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8220;83% say they believe young people have the power to change the country, 60% feel like they\u2019re part of a movement that will vote to express its views, and 79% of young people say the COVID-19 pandemic has helped them realize that politics impact their everyday lives.&#8221;<\/li><li>They support Biden over Trump by 58%-24%, &#8220;a staggering 34-point margin. But 18% of youth say they would like to vote for another candidate. Asian youth (78%) and Black youth (73%) are the most likely to support Biden. Meanwhile, almost three quarters of youth who support Trump (72%) are White.&#8221;<\/li><li><strong>&#8220;<\/strong>27% of young people (ages 18-24) say they have attended a march or demonstration, a remarkable increase from when we asked the question [of] the same age group before the 2016 and 2018 elections (5% and 16%, respectively).&#8221;<\/li><li>For all youth, the top issues are environment and climate change (13%), racism (12%) and healthcare (12%). For Black youth, the priorities are racism (22%), policing of communities of color (15%), and healthcare (11%).<\/li><li>All measured forms of political engagement are up compared to 2018 (admittedly, not a presidential year). For instance, half say that they have tried to convince someone else to vote&#8211;which is a lot of viral marketing for the election.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"625\" src=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-30-at-1.43.18-PM-1024x625.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-30-at-1.43.18-PM-1024x625.png 1024w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-30-at-1.43.18-PM-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-30-at-1.43.18-PM-768x469.png 768w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-30-at-1.43.18-PM-1536x938.png 1536w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-30-at-1.43.18-PM-624x381.png 624w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-30-at-1.43.18-PM.png 1566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Much more information is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/circle.tufts.edu\/latest-research\/poll-young-people-believe-they-can-lead-change-unprecedented-election-cycle\">CIRCLE page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIRCLE&#8217;s new survey of 2,232\u00a0young citizens (ages 18-29) is out. Among the findings: &#8220;83% say they believe young people have the power to change the country, 60% feel like they\u2019re part of a movement that will vote to express its views, and 79% of young people say the COVID-19 pandemic has helped them realize that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,37,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020-election","category-pandemic","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22971","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=22971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22975,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22971\/revisions\/22975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}