Johnson in 2nd among voters aged 18-34

[asterion]

@DSeid

If the election was held that day according to that poll it would be enough to get it done.

But yes those numbers are not as good as how Obama performed or polled, or as good as she had done in that age group before.

Can it be brought up? Will they turnout?

It reminds me of 2000. I’m actually just old enough (by a couple months) to have voted in 2000 and I’ll freely admit voting Nader. It reminds me a bit of 2004 as well, but that time there was no way for the Democrats to blame Nader. In both elections, most of the people I knew in high school/college didn’t really like either candidate, didn’t see that it would make much of a difference who won (though this was definitely a stronger feeling in 2000), and often didn’t vote.

Between the historic poor turnout of the youth vote, no matter the election or generation, and a general dislike of both major party candidates, I can easily see the youth vote being quite low. My guess is that more will get out to vote Clinton or Trump than Stein or Johnson, and that Clinton will win the group overall, but that she’ll be in more trouble than she had to be. More importantly, she won’t get the numbers needed to help offset the elderly voting for Trump in various swing states.

[Urbanredneck]

I think it also comes down to younger people just want an outsider and dont trust or want to vote for established politicians. Part of the “Throw the bums out” thing. Really Sanders and Trump fall into this category and looking back, so did Obama. Granted Obama was a senator but only a recent one and who didnt have the long history in politics like say Bob dole or even Hillary.

And thing is after being elected the outsider then becomes the establishment and faces the same backlash. Thats why Al Gore didnt catch the same youth vote as did Bill Clinton just 8 years earlier.

Now Johnson is the new “outsider”.