Hillary’s Support Weakest, Joe Biden’s Strongest Among Young Democrats

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One of the interesting things about the Marist-McClatchy poll is that while Hillary enjoys presumptive nominee status among Democrats, she’s barely hanging on to above 50% among the 18-29 crowd.

Hillary does best with voters in their forties and fifties. She does poorly with younger voters and is shaky among soft Democrats.

Wealthier Democrats are slightly likelier to support Hillary. (Not shocking, she is one of them. And she may have helped make them rich.)

Non-college grads are slightly less likelier to support Hillary Clinton than college grads. Unmarried voters are much less likely to support her than married voters.

Where does the young vote go? You might think it’s going to Elizabeth Warren, presumably because of her Socialism and her talk about student loans. But nope.

It’s going to Joe Biden.

Why Joe Biden? Good question. You could blame name recognition, but it’s not like Hillary Clinton is obscure. Biden is an idiot, but he is capable of hogging the spotlight and being “interesting”.

Either way 21% of young Democrats would go for Biden. Only 52% would go for Hillary. It’s not about to stop her campaign, but it’s something that Democrats might want to think about.

 

 

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    Yes, Biden is an idiot. He has a reputation for having loose lips sinking ships. Perhaps young college grads will go for him because he’s one of them, young and stupid and gaffe-happy. Well, I’m an unmarried, non-college grad (I still have all my marbles upstairs), so I’m not likely to vote for either Biden or Hillary. Last election, I voted for the Romulan because he wasn’t Obama.

    • Gee

      Not as loose as the President – whose statements have gotten people killed because he is too stupid to shut up

  • Elizabeth capecod

    Who cares that Joe’s a bumbling moron? The young think Joe is cool because he makes them laugh.

  • Well Done

    Well, they’re smart enough to not support Hilary… but they’re stupid enough to support Biden? LOL