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Can the Democrats convince millennial to vote

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Can the Democrats convince millennial to vote

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The Atlantic article on what Democrats need to do to convince millennial to vote.

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The challenge is especially urgent for Democrats because Trump divides younger and older Americans so sharply. Though Trump showed strength among blue-collar white Millennials, he carried just 36 percent of young people overall last November. Polls show he's lost ground since. Both the CNN/ORC and NBC/ Wall Street Journal surveys released last week found his approval rating among adults ages 18 to 34-almost exactly the Millennial generation's boundaries-falling below 30 percent. That's much lower than his ratings among older adults, especially those 50 or older.

Polls have also found that over three-fourths of Millennials oppose both Trump's Mexico border wall and his push to repeal Obama's climate-change agenda. Eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood, cutting taxes for top earners, barring Syrian refugees-each Trump priorities-all face preponderant Millennial opposition in surveys.

That hostility has produced a pronounced Democratic lean in early tests of 2018 attitudes. Millennials said they preferred Democrats for Congress by crushing margins of nearly 30 percentage points in both the NBC/ Wall Street Journal and CNN/ORC surveys. That's more than double the party's advantage among younger voters in NBC/ Wall Street Journal polls from 2010 and 2014. By contrast, Americans 35 years old or more divide exactly evenly between the parties on that ballot test in the CNN/ORC survey and slightly prefer Republicans in the other.

With Millennials poised to eclipse baby boomers as the largest generation of eligible voters in 2020, their widespread antipathy toward Trump's insular vision for the country looms as a long-term GOP challenge. Democrats, though, face the bigger near-term problem: motivating them to vote in 2018. As Bonier suggests, the balance between how many younger and older voters turn out could decide control of the House.

Figures compiled by CIRCLE, an institute that studies voter engagement at Tufts University, found that turnout among eligible voters ages 18 to 29 plummeted by more than half from the 2008 presidential election to the 2010 midterms and by that much again from 2012 to 2014. That decline was proportionally far greater than among older generations. (It was also greater than the falloff among minority voters from presidential to midterm elections.)

The result is that while young people ages 18 to 29 comprised nearly one-fifth of all voters in 2008 and 2012, their share collapsed to about one in eight in 2010 and 2014. Seniors, in turn, cast considerably more of the total vote in those midterms than in the presidential years. If that dynamic persists, it will measurably boost Trump and the GOP. In the CNN survey, over seven in 10 Millennials said they want candidates who will oppose Trump. A slight majority of seniors said they want candidates who will support him.

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Can the Democrats Convince Millennials to Vote in 2018?

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The challenge is especially urgent for Democrats because Trump divides younger and older Americans so sharply. Though Trump showed strength among blue-collar white Millennials, he carried just 36 percent of young people overall last November. Polls show he's lost ground since.

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You think midterm elections are boring? Not this year. Funny Or Die and Billy Eichner are going to Glam Up The Midterms!

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Billy Eichner campaign to get out vote for midterms;  

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Billy Eichner campaign to get out vote for midterms;  

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Glam up the midterms

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James Corden, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and Chelsea Handler are among those participating in the Funny or Die "Glam Up the Midterms" initiative.

Funny or Die has commissioned Billy Eichner and other big-name comedians to encourage millennials to vote during the November 2018 midterm elections with the launch of the "Glam Up the Midterms" campaign.

"I had a dream last night that several small-town Americans called me and were begging me to have more TV and film personalities lecture them about politics," Eichner said of the campaign. "So I'm here to answer their prayers!

According to an NBC news poll, only 12 percent of millennials voted in the last midterm election, something that Eichner wants to change by bringing various stars to districts across the country. Comedians participating in the campaign include James Corden, Sarah Silverman, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O'Brien, John Oliver, Robin Thede, Andy Cohen and Chelsea Handler.

"In all seriousness, I have certainly skipped more than a few midterm elections in my day - and now I deeply regret it," the Emmy-winning actor said. "So, after years of shouting at people on Billy on the Street, I've decided it's time to use my voice to do some good and to encourage young people all across the country not to make the same mistakes I did. Say what you will about me, I have a lot of energy and I can't wait to use it to help get out the vote and help 'Glam Up The Midterms' on November 6th!"

During former President Barack Obama's term, Funny or Die helped raise awareness about Obamacare with the president's appearance on Zach Galifianakis'Between Two Ferns. Funny or Die indicated that Trump wasn't as game as Obama or even former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who also sat for a Between Two Ferns interview.

"Sadly, the former host of Celebrity Apprentice won't return our phone calls," Funny or Die DC's head writer David Litt joked of Trump. "But we'll be working with artists across the country to increase the number of Americans - especially young people - who vote in 2018."

The campaign will work to convince voters under the age of 40 to fight for democracy and take the time to vote in November.

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Billy Eichner Launches Star-Studded Campaign to Get Millennials to Vote in Midterm Elections

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Funny or Die has commissioned Billy Eichner and other big-name comedians to encourage millennials to vote during the November 2018 midterm elections with the launch of the "Glam Up the Midterms" campaign. "I had a dream last night that several small-town Americans called me and were begging me to have more TV and film personalities lecture them about politics," Eichner said of the campaign.

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vbmya9/how-to-make-millennials-vote
An interview with Sean McElwee from Demos Action on getting out the young people's vote