Democrats lose ground with millennials - Reuters/Ipsos poll

[RKP5637]

Is this for real??? Sounds wrong to me.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-millennials/democrats-lose-ground-with-millennials-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN1I10YH

MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) - Enthusiasm for the Democratic Party is waning among millennials as its candidates head into the crucial midterm congressional elections, according to the Reuters/Ipsos national opinion poll.

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.

That presents a potential problem for Democrats who have come to count on millennials as a core constituency - and will need all the loyalty they can get to achieve a net gain of 23 seats to capture control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November.

[Frustratedlady]

1. I agree. Sounds backwards to me.

With Ryan and McConnell totally screwing up Congress, how can they admire anything about them unless their stock went up. Nothing else makes sense.

How much of that rise is actually due to Trump? If not, why haven't the Democrats advertised that fact? They sit back and let the Republicans run all over them on so many issues. Speak up! You may not be in power now, but you never will be if you don't stand up for our interest.

Everyone's too busy making money/raising funds.

[RKP5637]

14. Democratic messaging has always sucked to me. n/t

[PubliusEnigma]

2. The Bernie Effect. Promise them the moon.

[Loki Liesmith]

3. Lol the report works hard to hide the actual numbers

Here they are:


http://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/rngs/USA-ELECTION-MILLENNIALS%20/010061VB3NJ/index.html

Basically the change is from. 55D/25R to 46D/25R

There’s no there there. Article is a joke

[IluvPitties]

4. That's BS.

[Loki Liesmith]

5. Look at the actual data

The aggregate numbers don’t change a lot but the subgroups do. Subgroups always fluctuate more. This’s is a dishonest article. It reports normal variation as a trend.

[RKP5637]

13. Yep, it certainly looks like a dishonest article! n/t

[BoneyardDem]

12. agreed...total

[wasupaloopa]

6. What does steward of the economy mean to them?

Most of them are just starting careers. Does it mean they think they can join the 1% under Repubs?

Surely they don’t mean lower student loans or better chance at a single family home.

[vercetti2021]

7. Horseshit

That's what I call this. If they were losing ground, no way we'd have high point swings in our favor like we have been. But keep running a positive message to younger Americans, talk about the BS tax bill that was obviously bullshit wrapped in paper.

Register and GOTV!

[stopbush]

8. Does this mean that young voters will now not turn out to vote for Rs

instead of not turning out to vote for Ds?

[titaniumsalute]

11. The data does NOT suggest that

[oasis]

9. A double dose of Trump will bring them to the senses.

[RKP5637]

15. I hope they aren't going to let Trump dupe them. n/t

[MineralMan]

10. So, now, they won't go to the polls to not vote for Republicans, either?

Maybe Gen Z folks will vote. We oldsters won't be around forever, after all...

[RKP5637]

20. We gotta focus on the life extension stuff. We can't check out for a long time. Judging from

your parents, you've got a long ways to go, same here.

[TeamPooka]

16. Online survey

[RKP5637]

17. Yep! I put little trust in surveys/polls at getting what is really happening. n/t

[Tarc]

18. Why is this even news? It is a self-selection poll, i.e. statistically biased and unreliable

Also, screw this asshole;

Ashley Reed, a white single mother of three in New Hampshire, said a teenage fascination with Democrat Barack Obama led her to support his presidency in 2008. But her politics evolved with her personal life.

Reed, now 28, grew more supportive of gun rights, for instance, while married to her now ex-husband, a U.S. Navy technician. She lost faith in social welfare programs she came to believe were misused. She opposed abortion after having children.

Reed plans to vote for a Republican for Congress this year.

“As I got older, I felt that I could be my own voice,” she said last month in Concord, New Hampshire.

Translation, "I benefited from these services, now screw the next people that come along". White entitlement right there, and not at all representative of my state.

[RKP5637]

19. I was surprised Reuters did this and published it. They aren't RW biased, are they? It's a weird

and strange poll. And you are so right about the asshole Ashley Reed.

[ooky]

23. Sounds like she started watching Fox News.

[Crowman2009]

21. Ipsos has several offices in Moscow...

...just sayin'!

[RKP5637]

22. It smells of disinformation with an agenda to me. I was surprised when I came across it on Reuters.

... psyops staring early for the next election perhaps.