America's youngest voters turn right (www.axios.com)

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"A new trend has emerged in American politics: The very youngest voters — 18-to-24-year-olds — say they’re more conservative than the cohort that’s just older,” according to the latest Harvard Youth Poll.

“This new trend — which is true for both genders and emerged only in the last few years — is especially pronounced with men.”

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[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And yet because of the electoral college, it's still dead even. Factor in the armed citizen (trump supporting) electoral monitors planning to patrol ballots on election day and other vote suppression tactics, disenrollment and other court disenfranchisement tactics, and laws being passed to try to legally not certify a Harris victory, I figure Harris is probably and a 45-55 underdog at the moment.

Young people still don't vote at very high rates. They also tend to be the most likely demographic to say they are a likely voter but then not actually bother to vote. The youth vote is still a problem in this country.

I could be wrong, but I seem to remember that young conservative "likely voters" were much more likely to actually vote, so that muddies some of the clarity here as well.

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