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Hillary’s Support Weakest, Joe Biden’s Strongest Among Young Democrats
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On October 11, 2014 @ 4:34 pm In The Point | 4 Comments
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.
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