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Poll: Harris has massive lead among swing state college students

Vice President Harris has a 50-point lead over former President Trump among two- and four-year college students in the seven swing states: Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada, according to a new Generation Lab poll.

Why it matters: It’s a commanding lead that could even swing the results in some of these key states, depending on turnout among this youngest contingent of voters.

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/04/poll-harris-trump-swing-state-college-students?utm=axios_appOpen linkView original on lemm.ee
Beaconreply
fedia.io

We'll see. Gen Z - show us up in our dumb old faces. Are zoomers just the new boomers?

(What other phrases can i use to goad more zoomers into actually going to the voting booth?)

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Billiamreply
lemmy.world

Threaten to use their slang, knowing that no matter how you use it, you'll use it incorrectly?

"If you don't go vote, you're a skibidi!"

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rigattireply
lemmy.world

Are they really trying to lay claim to one of the Ninja Turtles' catchphrases?

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Cheemsreply
lemmy.world

Historically, they are the largest group and have the lowest turn out.

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Jesusreply
lemmy.world

I believe the point they are making is that age range is historically tough to turn out. Progressives have been praying for the youth to turn out for decades.

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Gen Z is way more motivated than the previous generations though. It's really a shame that gen alpha can't vote yet.

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I hate to say this, but it seems like I've been hearing this for every "generation" since mine - gen x (even though they - mostly the boomers - called us slackers). I think it was being said for boomers, too.

Question is - if they are "more motivated", what are they motivated for? And if they are motivated for progress, are they going to vote or just posture on social media? While I sure hope it's true that somehow this "generation" is different than all the others because of some magical inherent quality that no others had, I remain skeptical.

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If they show up. Have done phone-banking. Hard to beat apathy.

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lemmy.ml

She can’t compete with Trump’s lead amongst the stupids though

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adarzareply
lemmy.ca

there's just so damn many of them.

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Almost as though public education has been under attack for decades

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Pennsylvania has more than 200 colleges or universities in the state. They range from giants like Penn State to small liberal arts colleges like Lebanon Valley. It is a sizable voting population. AOC campaigned at Penn State and a few other colleges.

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Definitely not. I hope the younger generations learn their lesson and learn to to actually show up to vote if they get the chance to vote again. I'm not holding my breath.

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Sounds cute, but in the US electoral system having a "massive lead" among a state's {subset} of {subset} matters exactly zero. All that matters is having the lead in the whole state proper.

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