Young voters appear to be strongly anti-Bush, pro-Democratic

[pmbryant]

Found this at Ruy Teixeira's blog Donkey Rising. This is a great source to go to for analysis of polling trends, etc. I thought I should post this here, since occasionally I've seen sentiments expressed at DU implying that some people thought young people were rather conservative these days.

But based on these polling results, that appears to be far from the case, overall.

http://www.emergingdemocraticmajorityweblog.com/donkeyrising/archives/000434.shtml

March 8, 2004

More on Young Voters' Democratic Leanings

I had a brief note in DR on March 2nd about the latest Newsweek "GENext" poll that showed young voters leaning toward the Democrats. The full results of that poll have now been released, so a more complete account of these pro-Democratic leanings--and strong leanings they are--is given below.

In the poll, Bush's approval rating among young voters is just 46 percent, down 8 points from a month ago. His appproval ratings on the economy and “domestic issues like health care, education, the environment and energy” are even worse: 40 pecent approval/56 percent disapproval and 39 percent approval/58 percent disapproval, respectively.

Young voters are also strongly convinced the country is off on the wrong track (58 percent), rather than going in the right direction (40 percent).

And the number saying they will definitely vote against Bush is up to 47 percent, a 13 points rise from last month. That compares to a mere 28 percent of young voters who say they would definitely vote to re-elect him. Moreover, in a direct Kerry-Bush matchup, young voters choose Kerry over Bush by an impressive 15 point margin (56 percent to 41 percent).

The strong pro-Democratic tilt among young people extends to the question of which party they want to see gain control of Congress: by a 13 point margin (50 percent to 37 percent), they prefer the Democrats.

[Bluzmann57]

1. Have a 19 year old daughter in college

and she has assured me that she is going to vote Democratic and her roomies will and supposedly the entire campus, although she may be a bit carried away. But I am sure Kelly and her roomies will. Makes a father proud.:)

[Melodybe]

2. We have to get the young voters out!

Even young Hollywood is on our side, at LA's Rock the Vote party, in attendance were, Leonardo Dicaprio, Alyssa Milano, Kristen Dunst, Jake Gillenhual, Maggie Gillenhual, and Toby McGuire, to name a few.

All are big democrats!

[Reverend_Smitty]

3. I'll be 20 in two weeks

This will be my first presidential election that I could vote in...(not my first time voting btw) and I am so excited to finally be part of the process. I know that both my roommate and I will be supporting the democratic candidates this year. The problem that I seem to encounter when talking to my peers is that they have no idea nor do they care what is going on in the world around them...whenever I encounter someone like that I try to give them good reasons for voting and being politically active who knows if it sinks in