13369635, turnout among 1st time voters is down in early states.
Posted by Reeq, Sun Mar-01-20 09:40 PM
from 2016 where their turnout was already pretty dismal.
obviously not just limited to bernie. but this young voter 'revolution' promised by sanders and his supporters just isnt materializing so far.
mind you...this is all following record youth turnout in the 2018 midterms. so the potential energy has been shown to be there by other candidates/campaigns.
this was written before sc but sc continued the same trend.
https://twitter.com/nytpolitics/status/1232296208837771265
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The first three nominating contests reveal a fundamental challenge for Bernie Sanders’s political revolution: He may be winning, but not because of his longstanding pledge to expand the Democratic base
https://t.co/qgeMBYive1
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/us/politics/bernie-sanders-democratic-voters.html
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The share of the electorate made up of first-time Democratic voters also decreased in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada compared with 2016. And unlike four years ago, when Mr. Sanders mobilized far more first-time voters than Hillary Clinton did (averaging a 30-point lead over Mrs. Clinton across the three states), he had only a modest 10-point edge over his closest rival, Mr. Buttigieg, in that metric this time around.
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so sanders was barely beating out p booty in turning out 1st time voters? yikes.
anyone wanna try to spin this or can we all just accept this as a red flag that needs to be addressed asap?
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