2020 Election If Only Youth Vote
By washington post live.
2020 election if only youth vote. Shows how the election would look if only young people voted. Fewer than half of americans 18 to 29 voted in the 2016 presidential election a gap of more than 15 points compared with the overall turnout. Biden would have won the election by a much wider margin.
Most young people in the united states don t vote. The 2018 midterms saw the highest youth voter turnout in 100. Rachel bucchino politics americas caution.
63 of americans age 18 29 say they will definitely be voting in the november election a new harvard youth poll found marking a substantial increase from 2016 and 2018 and putting. The data is clear. Just after sunup on a saturday morning when most college students are still sound asleep sophomore libby klinger stands outside her dorm waiting to be picked up.
August 12 2020 at 7 07 p m. Future youth voting patterns aren t set. Pushback with aaron matépresident trump is refusing to concede to joe biden over baseless allegations of widespread electoral fraud.
Youth ages 18 to 24 represent 12 percent of the u s. Young voters in georgia particularly youth of color who make up more than half of the voting eligible youth population in the state and voters under the age of 25 seem to have made this once solid red state into a cliffhanger swing state in the 2020 presidential election. But we have to not only go out and protest but we have to vote those people into power.
Population and account for over 30 million potential votes this election season. The 2020 election saw record breaking turnout among voters of all ages with youth and college voter turnout in several battleground states.