Gen Z Voters Say They Are Opting Out of the 2024 Election

[Dulcinea]

For the first time since he became eligible to vote, Elias, 26, isn’t going to cast a ballot for president in the next election. Lillian, 20, hasn’t decided whether she’s going to vote or not. Lia, 28, is going to leave the spot for “president” blank on her ballot. And Zach, 22, is having a hard time convincing some of his friends that their vote matters.

After a record-breaking youth turnout in 2020 helped decide the election for President Joe Biden, a recent poll released by the Harvard Kennedy School shows that young Americans seem less likely to vote in 2024 than they were in 2020. According to the poll, at this point in the 2020 election cycle, 57% of Americans between ages 18 and 29 were planning to vote; that number has since declined to 49%. Though Gen Z voters prefer President Biden over his likely challenger, former president Donald Trump, only 35% of this demographic approves of Biden’s performance as president.

Given that young voters helped secure a win for Biden in 2020, lower youth-vote turnout in 2024 could change the outcome of the election. Still, some left-leaning young people have decided to abstain rather than vote for Biden or the Democratic Party, a candidate and a system some say they simply cannot support.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/gen-z-voters-opting-2024-130000173.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=0_00

[captain queeg]

1. Not too bright. I'd say they'll get what they deserve except they'd doing us in too.

[madashelltoo]

2. The sad part is they will live long enough

To regret their decision.

[Mister Ed]

3. Gen Z voters say they'll cut own throats.

There, I fixed that headline.

[Lovie777]

4. Nope...................................

they will vore.

[JohnSJ]

5. The same idiotic mindset in 2016 who refused to vote for Hillary in 2016, by either voting

third party or not voting.

If they play the same crap that was done in 2000 and 2016, and contribute to trump being elected, and the destruction of our democracy, and in that event I will applaud anything bad that happens to them as a result of their stupidity.

Hopefully, enough DEMOCRATS, Women, and independents will make those with that mindset irrelevant.

They have demonstrated time and again they were NEVER a reliable Democratic voting group, and their ignorance, and stupidity should not surprise anyone.

[Walleye]

6. It's their future let them make their bed and lie in it. Not much more can happen to me and people my age

Are they trying to punish the boomers? Because it’s not working. Their poor little consciences won’t let them vote?

[2naSalit]

7. Is this...

Confirmed by anyone other than Yahoo?

[Dulcinea]

8. The original source is Teen Vogue. nt

[2naSalit]

9. Hmmm.

Thanks.

[hlthe2b]

10. Who will these ignorant "children" blame when Fascists take over?

My contempt for (what I hope is a small minority of voters) runneth over.

[Beartracks]

11. ATTENTION: An opt-out is not an option. A non-vote is still a vote. Inaction is an action.

Not choosing is indeed a choice.

And not voting, not acting, not choosing -- these things still create an impact, but just one that is completely out of your control.

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[Magoo48]

12. Does teenVogue speak for America's Zoomers? No.

Is this information comprehensive? No. If we cast about in just the right places, we can poke everybody’s fearbone with this kind aggro-horsedumplings.
And to what end?

[Traildogbob]

13. Spoiled brats

Wait until Trump, like his BFF Pootie, drafts every damn one of em, into his military, and they take an oath to die for their king.
Starting to feel like Melania here, “just really don’t give a shit any more”.
I am tired, wasting the precious time I got left on the shit show of American “exceptionalism”. Almost a decade of expecting a tiny bit of Justice for the blob. He SLITHERS away at every turn, and just gets more venomous, and more loved by his soon to be victims.

[CousinIT]

14. Not voting voting for Trump. Has anyone talked to these people?

DO THEY NOT KNOW HOW TO THINK LOGICALLY?

Seriously. Do they really think not voting is going to help their cause? Opting not to vote in 2024 could easily mean they never have the option to vote AT ALL again ever in this country. OR if they do bother, it won't count.

[getagrip_already]

15. teen vogue?

My guess is there demographic is skewed younger than 18-20 (no matter how they answer the poll) and not tuned in to politics, especially this far out from an election.

They are still persuadable. Celebs like taylor swift will have a big impact on them, as will our inemable vp.

As they wake up and realie it is their bodies, their choice, their sexuality, their careers, their planet, all on the line - they will realize only one party offers them any options. We just have to present that to them.

They aren't children, or selfish, or brats. It's just a stupid poll asking stupid questions to an insular sample.

[stonecutter357]

16. lol

[Deep State Witch]

17. They Want President Sugar Daddy

Tom Bonier, an experienced pollster and CEO of the TARA Group, says these polls are illuminating. “What it clearly shows is that young voters are experiencing some sense of disillusionment with our politics right now,” he explains. “Whether or not [the polling] translates into [actual] lower turnout remains to be seen. I think politicians… should be concerned if this [young] generation doesn’t see our political process as a viable means of changing the world for the better.”

Maybe I'm just an old fart because one of my first memories was Watergate. You don't have to fucking be in love with every candidate for President. Yes, sometimes you ARE voting for the "lesser of two evils." You don't get everything you want. But, when one choice is literally going to kill you or some of your friends, you need to vote for the lesser of two evils.

[Aristus]

18. I'm not sure I agree.

Gen Z knows the score.

Even my grandson, who is the most inert, 'yeah, whatever' stoner imaginable, makes sure his ballot is submitted every Election Day. He lets me fill it out and drop it off for him, because he trusts me, and he knows our political beliefs align with each other.

[Tarheel_Dem]

19. Well, I'm shocked! NOT! These same articles made the rounds in 2012, telling us how disappointed young voters were...

with President Obama. "Will they, or won't they show up"? They search out these alleged "disaffected" young voters in order to create a suppressive narrative. It never fails, and I would expect nothing less from our joke of a M$M, heading into November.