Democrats’ Early Voting Strategy Isn’t Working Due To One Key Demographic

[Free Vulcan]

...The analysis focused on key Senate races across the country considered ‘battlegrounds’ in the effort to control the chamber. Young voters under the age of 30, according to most major polls, overwhelmingly favor Democratic control of Congress, with 57% supporting the party versus 31% for Republicans, according to a Harvard Institute of Politics survey...

...In North Carolina, where Republican Rep. Ted Budd is challenging Cheri Beasley, the Democratic former Chief Justice of North Carolina, early voting by voters under the age of 30 accounts for merely 5.4% of votes cast, compared to 16.5% at this time in 2020. Though Budd has been ahead in most major polls, Democrats consider the seat competitive given North Carolina’s small margins of victory for candidates; Donald Trump won the state by 1.34% in the 2020 presidential election...

https://www.conservativereview.com/democrats-early-voting-strategy-isnt-working-due-to-one-key-demographic-2658540010.html

[Hoodat]

Young people are cynical.  Imagine entering the workforce in your early 20s and right away being handed a bill for $31 trillion which is essentially a tab run up by your parents and grandparents.  Young people want no part of a political system that has done this to them.

[Free Vulcan]

The thing about it is that the Dems count on this every election as their bedrock base support, because of the tendency of the under 30 to vote liberal.

If they are truly voting at about 1/3 the normal rate across the country, the Dems are screwed.

[cato potatoe]

I don't know why the GOP is suspicious of early voting, but that needed to change twenty years ago.  If there is a nor'easter or midwest snowstorm, November 8 may not turn out as we had hoped.