ABC News poll: Trump surges in popularity among...Millennials?!

[Grummgug]

http://redalertpolitics.com/2016/05/...lennial-swing/

A shocking new poll from ABC News reveals Hillary Clinton is losing to Donald Trump nationwide 46 percent to 44 percent. That’s an 11 percent shift from March, when Trump trailed Clinton by 9 points.
What was the biggest driver in this shift in the polls? Surprisingly, it’s young voters.

Clinton’s support among young voters ages 18 to 29 has dropped 19 percent since March — and Trump has gained 17 percent support from the same demographic. That’s a 36 percent swing.
While Clinton leads Trump in the demographic 45 to 42 percent, this margin in the general election would ensure a Republican landslide. Mitt Romney lost the youth vote to Barack Obama by more than 20 percent, and even a 10 percent Democrat margin would still ensure a decisive victory for Trump.
So, why the big shift?

The question is: Can Trump take advantage of this attitude? His advisor rolled out an excellent college affordability plan this month. Now would be the time to take it to young communities nationwide, while also continuing his economic jobs-focused message.

Rush Limbaugh had an interesting opinion on why this shift happened.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/20...ns_tawdry_past

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RUSH: So Trump has gone there. Trump has gone to all of this Clinton conspiracy stuff. And I got people saying, "Why is he doing this, Rush? Why doesn't Trump just stick to the issues? He's got this Make America Great theme going, he's got the wall and Mexico, why is he deviating from it?"

There are a lot of Millennials who do not have any idea about the Clinton nineties. They were not born or they were not old enough. At the same time, that means they were not captivated by the media treatment of the Clintons, which was fawning idolatry. They were not part and parcel of that. They didn't live through it. If they did, they don't remember it. And many of them are learning about this for the first time.

Look, folks, I predicted long ago that Millennials would be appalled to learn about the Clintons' past. To me, that's a no brainer. Especially women Millennials and how Trump is reaching out to them, educating them. By the way, according to that ABC/Washington Post poll yesterday, Trump has just swung a lot of Millennials over to his side. It's a 36% swing. Now, "Clinton's support among young voters 18 to 29 has dropped 19% since March, and Trump has gained 17% support from the same demographic group, a 36% swing among Millennials."

Here's another: What is so wrong about people being reminded of the legitimate past of Bill and Hillary Clinton? You know what? The reason why people are shocked and go, "Oh!" is because the media wouldn't do it. Way back in the nineties when the media wouldn't do it, a message is conveyed that it would be improper to discuss these things. "After all, the man is our president of the United States, and his wife tried to save every American with health care! It'd be terribly bad form to do this." The media wouldn't report on it.

That conveys a message that it would be uncool to talk about these things. But what is so wrong about people being reminded of the Clinton past -- or, in some cases, being told about it for the first time? I mean, is anything in the past ever out of bounds for a Republican candidate? The media go back 25, 30 years. The media will quote sources that are 20, 25 years old (that have personal grudges and so forth) in their efforts to destroy Republicans. When it comes to the Clintons, no reporting of any of this stuff ever went on.

That conveys the message: We shouldn't discuss it. So Trump comes along and discusses it, and people of a certain age say, "Oh, oh, oh! We're not supposed to. We're not supposed to talk about this. Ooh, ooh," and they get the vapors. But Millennials and other young people say, "Whoa, whoa, whoa! What's this? Whoa, whoa, whoa! We didn't know this." Now, it's hard for people to think that people don't know this.

"You didn't know about Bill Clinton and all women? You didn't know about Bill Clinton Juanita Broaddrick? You didn't know? "

"No! We didn't know!"

[PC2]

This is where Bern-or-Busters burn down America by voting Trump to punish Hillary.

[Garnier Fructis]

This is where Bern-or-Busters burn down America by voting Trump to punish Hillary.

Burn, instead of Bern. Missed pun opportunity.

I am disappointed.

[PC2]

Burn, instead of Bern. Missed pun opportunity.

I am disappointed.

Thank you for the Bern notice!

[nonameelf]

Apparently Bernie not being a candidate means they vote for his opposite.

[apepi]

Those Sanders votes have to go to someone, and Hillary already pissed them off so...

[Garnier Fructis]

Those Sanders votes have to go to someone, and Hillary already pissed them off so...

I fully expect the petulant behavior to die down when Clinton clinches the nomination, in similar fashion to many of the 'Never Trump' Repubs basically resigning themselves to voting for Trump like a week after he won.

[Wells]

Eh its one poll and May is a notoriously weird month for polling. I think you're looking more at the results of a divided Democratic Party.

[Cosmic Janitor]

Meh, I guess protest voting is always tempting. I mean clinton is 50% republican anyway, might as well give the finger to the one party that decided she was their candidate. In that laughably broken 2 party system where your choice hardly matters I can understand the frustration with this pest or cholera choice, but then trump might be more than just cholera, there is certainly a bit of leprosy and rabies in him as well.

[araine]

We have a Bernie or bust and burn America down movement going right now. folks know electing trump will mean shit will be really really bad and we will get a socialist in 2020 to fix the problems trump created, Folks know Shillary will just be business as usual the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer

[Eliseus]

Good. It's time some of these people are actually being educated on stuff. Maybe next they will actually believe things Trump actually said, and not what Democrats keep saying Trump said. Sadly Hilary will still have all those votes from people who just want to see a Woman in office!

[araine]

Meh, I guess protest voting is always tempting. I mean clinton is 50% republican anyway, might as well give the finger to the one party that decided she was their candidate. In that laughably broken 2 party system where your choice hardly matters I can understand the frustration with this pest or cholera choice, but then trump might be more than just cholera, there is certainly a bit of leprosy and rabies in him as well.

Hillary might pull in lots from the old school GOP business wing but she will not pull many of the young voters thats for sure. And if DNC insists on going with hillary and ends up losing a gimme white house they deserve all hell that will break loose

[Garnier Fructis]

We have a Bernie or bust and burn America down movement going right now. folks know electing trump will mean shit will be really really bad and we will get a socialist in 2020 to fix the problems trump created, Folks know Shillary will just be business as usual the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer

On the flip side, folks are forgetting that a president Trump will likely get to appoint 2 SC justices. Getting what you want 4 years later is not worth 2 decades of shitshow.

[Wells]

I think BernieorBust is largely an overrated effect. Too busy with Overwatch to dig it up, but the same people were even more common in '08 and they made their peace.

[Cosmic Janitor]

Somehow I have the feeling that no matter who wins this one, everyone hopes for a better candidate in 4 years. If clinton won and ran twice I wouldn't be surprised if someone like trump would have an easier time in 4 years on the other side. If trump were to win, even the republicans might elect a sanders the next time. No way to win this one either way imho.

[Cthulhu 2020]

On the flip side, folks are forgetting that a president Trump will likely get to appoint 2 SC justices. Getting what you want 4 years later is not worth 2 decades of shitshow.

We've learned that millenials are fickle idiots with a short attention span. 8 years of "The same old shit" won't look so bad compared to the heaping pile of shit Trump would serve them. Let's not forget that Trump is a man who's building golf courses with wage slaves.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/watc...i-golf-course/

And people want this clown in office.

[LilSaihah]

I think BernieorBust is largely an overrated effect. Too busy with Overwatch to dig it up, but the same people were even more common in '08 and they made their peace.

Which ones were those do you think, the Ron Paul people?

[Manabomb]

Those Sanders votes have to go to someone, and Hillary already pissed them off so...

The millenials will be back when they figure out that Trump has absolutely no appeal for their generation. At the end of the day, you really need to figure out who's lied more: Trump or Hilary?

Then we need to figure out why we are voting a pair of liars into office when we should be going for someone honest. But that's just the political party system in the united states.

[PACOX]

Well Sanders was popular with Millennials too so....

[Wells]

Which ones were those do you think, the Ron Paul people?

Which ones were who? The 08 primary between Obama and Clinton was nasty, this one is nothing. A large number of Clinton supporters swore they'd never vote Obama but they came around.