Poll finds Democrats losing ground with millenials
A poll of more than 16,000 registered voters between 18 and 34 years old has found a significant loss of support in the past two years for the Democratic Party.
The online survey of more than 16,000 registered voters ages 18 to 34 shows their support for Democrats over Republicans for Congress slipped by about 9 percentage points over the past two years, to 46 percent overall. And they increasingly say the Republican Party is a better steward of the economy.
Although nearly two of three young voters polled said they do not like Republican President Donald Trump, their distaste for him does not necessarily extend to all Republicans or translate directly into votes for Democratic congressional candidates.
I normally don’t report on polls, as they are a notoriously unreliable predictor of future events. However, the number of participants here is so high that I decided it merited consideration.
At the same time, Republicans should not begin their victory dance. The poll also noted that “Only 28 percent of those polled expressed overt support for Republicans in the 2018 poll – about the same percentage as two years earlier.”
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A poll of more than 16,000 registered voters between 18 and 34 years old has found a significant loss of support in the past two years for the Democratic Party.
The online survey of more than 16,000 registered voters ages 18 to 34 shows their support for Democrats over Republicans for Congress slipped by about 9 percentage points over the past two years, to 46 percent overall. And they increasingly say the Republican Party is a better steward of the economy.
Although nearly two of three young voters polled said they do not like Republican President Donald Trump, their distaste for him does not necessarily extend to all Republicans or translate directly into votes for Democratic congressional candidates.
I normally don’t report on polls, as they are a notoriously unreliable predictor of future events. However, the number of participants here is so high that I decided it merited consideration.
At the same time, Republicans should not begin their victory dance. The poll also noted that “Only 28 percent of those polled expressed overt support for Republicans in the 2018 poll – about the same percentage as two years earlier.”
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
no shame in the pursuit of political power:
Romney states that “Things that Trump is doing are things that he would also be doing”, says the originator of the Obamacare model of socialist healthcare. This from the man who made a special effort and speech against Trump in an effort to torpedo Trumps presidential run.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385620-romney-praises-trumps-first-year-in-office-its-similar-to-things-id
What raw and naked gall.
Romney is being forced to actually run against a fellow Republican in his quest for a Senate seat. I am hopeful that he is turned away and rejected by the voters of Utah in his Senate run. Romney in my mind represents the tired old proforma guard that has delivered us to where we find ourselves today. He timidly marches in lock step with the last four failed Globalist presidents that needs to be put out to pasture and have the paddock gate locked so they can no longer get into the barn. An excellent corporate raider, one crappy and self righteous politician.
And now he attempts to reformulate himself and pander to millennial voters who know not of him or have forgotten of his treachery?
Anything in the pursuit of the retention of or the acquisition of political power. Anything.
We’ll have to disagree Cotour. I appreciate most of what Trump is doing, but I still like Romney much more. I wish for kinder, gentler politics with much less name calling, but I will vote for Trump’s reelection anyway.
Tom D:
Mr. Romney is a handsome, affable, nice and probably very “moral” (?) man who is not a leader he is a follower. He is everything that you would imagine a successful politician would look and sound like. He hits all of the preconceived notions that are preset in your brain.
DANGER! His Senate run is more than likely a set up for another presidential run. And God help us if he was to be successful. List for me his wonderful accomplishments in government, we can start the list with Obamacare, you continue.
” I wish for kinder, gentler politics with much less name calling, but I will vote for Trump’s reelection anyway.”
“Wishing” and comfortability has no place in politics, politics is the dirtiest, filthiest and most down and dirty activity that humans participate in, if you have not noticed. Politics is warfare, wishing is something else. And it is not Trump that has brought it out, it is Trump representing a real existential threat to the Left that has brought all of this nastiness out. The more and louder they scream and spit the closer that Trump comes to vanquishing them. The vial nature of our politics is based in political warfare and a death struggle and not Marquess Of Queensberry Rules.
I understand your personal discomfort with the Trump era and with Trump himself, but your need for being comfortable and feeling “good” about yourself and your representatives, respectfully, is the road to hell related to our country. Where has that model brought us? One step, one president away from Globalism and a socialist “utopia”.
I propose that you objectively step back and rethink how you think, even retrain yourself about politics in general. While I am sure that Romney is a nice man he is not as a general rule what we need especially at this point in our history.
I know it is difficult to think differently about these things, but these things are exactly the things that need to be thought differently about because your preconceived notions of what leadership looks like is well understood by the people who strive to control and own you and me.
You are right about Romney, at convention one of the speakers stood up with a carpet bag and started pulling things out of it describing all of the things that Romney has done in the past including universal healthcare, abortion support, rhino affiliations, and generally just a good old boy from back east which has never lived full time in Utah but is heavily supported by the Mormon church presidency.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/04/21/a-hockey-arena-may-be-a-fitting-place-for-todays-utah-republican-convention-where-some-candidates-and-delegates-are-itching-for-a-fight/
Mitt Romney had petitions at all of the caucus meetings. I brought up to the Republican leadership that anyone who signed this petition has forfeited their right to vote in convention. “They don’t get to vote twice”. This is a form of voter fraud. A vote on the petition directly contradicts the convention process and undermines it.
Mitt established enough votes on the petition to be on the ballet running against the democrat and Republican candidate.
Chris Stewart R, in special election, got enough Republican and Democrat votes to be a Utah congressman even though he was a Democrat party executive in Utah County.
As mayor of Provo city, he kept his chief of police from being prosecuted for rape and sexual misconduct. Now the city is facing lawsuits.
“Because it will be difficult and I can not out right buy it I will not be running for the office of president in 2020”
Guess who? Mike Bloomberg.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/05/bloomberg-says-he-wont-run-for-president-in-2020-1205460
What an American hero.