
According to the exit polls, the level of support for the Democratic candidate by young people - relative to the votes of everybody else - was greater that disparity was greater in 2008 than it has even been in the history of exit polling. SCOTT KEETER: First I’m going to start with something that isn’t news and that is that the Millennials made a big splash in 2008. Millennials Interviewee 3: Our generation seriously thinks that no matter what comes to you there’s an answer to your problem. It’s been a part of our lives, and it’s not groundbreaking in the least bit to have interracial couples. Millennials Interviewee 2: We grew up with things like “Will & Grace” and having that in the comfort of our home and so we’ve grown up with it. Millennials Interviewee 1: We have to be wiser with our decisions in how we handle things with the economy, with energy, than previous generations have. Here’s a minute’s worth of what we found.

I found a surprising confidence and even a bit of wisdom. When I traveled around the United States in the midterm election year 2006 and again this year looking to see how the younger generation was being affected by the recession, and when I say this year I’m really talking about last 2009, I found some strong views. This one is the panel most appropriate, I guess, for the city in which we meet, Washington, because it’s about how young people perceive politics and government, what their views are on the issues of the day and how they choose to engage in political life or not. JUDY WOODRUFF: Welcome back to our third and final panel of the day as we examine the younger generation born after 1980.
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Find full transcripts, including audience discussion, and video of the full event at Millennials video page. In the following excerpt, ellipses have been omitted to facilitate reading. Reihan Salam, Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation, and co-author, “Grand New Party” Matt Bai, Contributing Politics Writer, The New York Times Magazine Michael Dimock, Associate Director for Research, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press Scott Keeter, Director of Survey Research, Pew Research Center Judy Woodruff, Senior Correspondent, PBS Newshour The last of three sessions addressed the question of whether Millennials, who rocked the vote in 2008, will show up at the polls this November and how they may shape the political landscape beyond? 24, 2010, Pew Research Center analysts and outside experts discussed research findings about the Millennial generation, the American teens and twenty-somethings now making the passage into adulthood.
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Lisa Desjardins examines both candidates’ polling strengths and Carroll Doherty of the Pew Research Center and The Washington Post’s Dan Balz join Judy Woodruff for a breakdown of the electorate and how the candidates can drive home their messages.This is part of a Pew Research Center series of reports exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of the teens and twenty-somethings that make up the Millennial GenerationĪt a conference at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Nationally, the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is getting closer an average of polls show Clinton’s post-convention bounce is over. Your score shows your likelihood of being Republican or Democrat and is based on a Pew March 2016 political survey. Questions gauge political values and an individual’s stance on policies and range from government spending to gay marriage.


What does Donald Trump believe? Where the candidate stands on 10 issues What does Hillary Clinton believe? Where the candidate stands on 12 issues To better understand where you land on the political spectrum, take our updated Political Party Quiz, developed by Pew Research Center in collaboration with the PBS NewsHour. presidential election is shaping up to be one of the most divisive contests in recent memory.
