What has Trump done to this country?

DIY-HP-LED

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Here is a hopeful sign, usually youth doesn't vote, but I figured the BLM activism would work on them, when they hit the streets, they will hit the polls a few months later. Another sign of hope, many appear to be better people than their parents, the result of a better media diet and reduced parental influence.

If there is a big youth turn out it's game over for not just Donald, but the GOP too, youth breaks heavily democratic, at least this time I think. Because of covid and extended in person early voting we are getting a detailed demographic look at this slow motion election in many places.
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Within The Early Voting Boom, Youth Turnout Seems To Be Surging

When Sam Peterson enrolled at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, he found the college experience mind-boggling. So too, he says, was figuring out how to vote in the 2018 midterm elections.

"Even though I had helped out with voter registration drives, I still felt confused about how to register. I didn't know what voting by mail was or absentee voting was," said Peterson, who is now 21 and a fellow with the left-leaning NextGen Iowa. "So then, I was just really overwhelmed with school and with this voting thing, and so I didn't vote in 2018."

That year, young voters turned out in historic numbers and were part of the coalition that helped to elect a Democratic House of Representatives. And with days until Election Day, signs have emerged that young voters are poised for another cycle of record turnout, particularly as young people are more likely than their older counterparts to vote in person and later in the election season.

A poll released Monday by Harvard University's Institute of Politics surveyed 18- to 29-year-olds and found that 63% said they would "definitely" vote in the election, which is the highest proportion of respondents in the 20 years that the poll of young voters has been conducted. It is also far higher than in 2016, when the Harvard Youth Poll found that 47% of respondents said they would "definitely" vote in that year's election.

And analyses of the early voting electorate similarly suggest that younger voters are set to make up a larger share than they did in 2016 or 2018.

More than 6 million voters under 30 have already cast early ballots, according to the Democratic data firm TargetSmart, compared with roughly 2 million early votes at the same time in 2016. And, according to TargetSmart CEO Tom Bonier, the number of early voters under 30 who are voting for the first time in their life is more than double the number of first-time voters at this point in the 2016 election.
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Stone_Free

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Here is a hopeful sign, usually youth doesn't vote, but I figured the BLM activism would work on them, when they hit the streets, they will hit the polls a few months later. Another sign of hope, many appear to be better people than their parents, the result of a better media diet and reduced parental influence.

If there is a big youth turn out it's game over for not just Donald, but the GOP too, youth breaks heavily democratic. Because of covid and extended in person early voting we are getting a detailed demographic look at this slow motion election in many places.
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Within The Early Voting Boom, Youth Turnout Seems To Be Surging

When Sam Peterson enrolled at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, he found the college experience mind-boggling. So too, he says, was figuring out how to vote in the 2018 midterm elections.

"Even though I had helped out with voter registration drives, I still felt confused about how to register. I didn't know what voting by mail was or absentee voting was," said Peterson, who is now 21 and a fellow with the left-leaning NextGen Iowa. "So then, I was just really overwhelmed with school and with this voting thing, and so I didn't vote in 2018."

That year, young voters turned out in historic numbers and were part of the coalition that helped to elect a Democratic House of Representatives. And with days until Election Day, signs have emerged that young voters are poised for another cycle of record turnout, particularly as young people are more likely than their older counterparts to vote in person and later in the election season.

A poll released Monday by Harvard University's Institute of Politics surveyed 18- to 29-year-olds and found that 63% said they would "definitely" vote in the election, which is the highest proportion of respondents in the 20 years that the poll of young voters has been conducted. It is also far higher than in 2016, when the Harvard Youth Poll found that 47% of respondents said they would "definitely" vote in that year's election.

And analyses of the early voting electorate similarly suggest that younger voters are set to make up a larger share than they did in 2016 or 2018.

More than 6 million voters under 30 have already cast early ballots, according to the Democratic data firm TargetSmart, compared with roughly 2 million early votes at the same time in 2016. And, according to TargetSmart CEO Tom Bonier, the number of early voters under 30 who are voting for the first time in their life is more than double the number of first-time voters at this point in the 2016 election.
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I would say it's safe to assume that these young voters aren't turning out to 'save Don' :D
 

mysunnyboy

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Here is a hopeful sign, usually youth doesn't vote, but I figured the BLM activism would work on them, when they hit the streets, they will hit the polls a few months later. Another sign of hope, many appear to be better people than their parents, the result of a better media diet and reduced parental influence.

If there is a big youth turn out it's game over for not just Donald, but the GOP too, youth breaks heavily democratic. Because of covid and extended in person early voting we are getting a detailed demographic look at this slow motion election in many places.
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Within The Early Voting Boom, Youth Turnout Seems To Be Surging

When Sam Peterson enrolled at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, he found the college experience mind-boggling. So too, he says, was figuring out how to vote in the 2018 midterm elections.

"Even though I had helped out with voter registration drives, I still felt confused about how to register. I didn't know what voting by mail was or absentee voting was," said Peterson, who is now 21 and a fellow with the left-leaning NextGen Iowa. "So then, I was just really overwhelmed with school and with this voting thing, and so I didn't vote in 2018."

That year, young voters turned out in historic numbers and were part of the coalition that helped to elect a Democratic House of Representatives. And with days until Election Day, signs have emerged that young voters are poised for another cycle of record turnout, particularly as young people are more likely than their older counterparts to vote in person and later in the election season.

A poll released Monday by Harvard University's Institute of Politics surveyed 18- to 29-year-olds and found that 63% said they would "definitely" vote in the election, which is the highest proportion of respondents in the 20 years that the poll of young voters has been conducted. It is also far higher than in 2016, when the Harvard Youth Poll found that 47% of respondents said they would "definitely" vote in that year's election.

And analyses of the early voting electorate similarly suggest that younger voters are set to make up a larger share than they did in 2016 or 2018.

More than 6 million voters under 30 have already cast early ballots, according to the Democratic data firm TargetSmart, compared with roughly 2 million early votes at the same time in 2016. And, according to TargetSmart CEO Tom Bonier, the number of early voters under 30 who are voting for the first time in their life is more than double the number of first-time voters at this point in the 2016 election.
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But, have you seen all the young republicans in college doing whatever they can for drump?
UVA for example, I saw an interesting piece where they were upset because they couldn’t do the usual young people campaigning but were finding other ways to get out for drump.
I’ll look for it.
Young and dumb. Never forget the human brain doesn’t recognize cause and effect until the age of 25. Meaning they don’t realize what they repercussions are of their vote.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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But, have you seen all the young republicans in college doing whatever they can for drump?
UVA for example, I saw an interesting piece where they were upset because they couldn’t do the usual young people campaigning but were finding other ways to get out for drump.
I’ll look for it.
Young and dumb. Never forget the human brain doesn’t recognize cause and effect until the age of 25. Meaning they don’t realize what they repercussions are of their vote.
There is a certain amount of "coolness" to being anti Trump and the opinions of young women do affect some young men who want to have a chance of getting laid! It's trendy like an iphone and that will be it's appeal to many, also they know an idiot when they see one.

They are at an impressionable age where we form the habits of a lifetime and Trump, the republicans and the lived experience of covid will make quite an impression. Of course there are Trump youth, conservative clubs and prayer groups on campus in many places, though I favored the meditation groups myself, better crowd. The point is young people are more mentally flexible than older people and are more open to new ideas and experiences, learning is bottom up, not top down like in many.
 

schuylaar

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Not that Walmart hasn’t already flooded America with War Weapons.
yes, more rats jumping ship the last week but at least it's better than if they kept selling..that they realize what could happen and hey, they don't want any lawsuits it's always a CYA move for Big Corporate.
 
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