It Turns Out That Millennials Like Hillary Clinton Just Fine

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It’s the first election day of the cycle, so I might as well go with the flow. Langer Research recently asked millennials how they’d feel if various candidates won the presidency. Here were the choices:

  • like declaring a national holiday
  • like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel
  • like shrugging
  • like going back to bed
  • like fleeing the country

And here are the results:

Needless to say, Donald Trump elicited the most extreme reaction. More interesting, I think, is that even among millennials there’s really no enthusiasm gap between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. This has decidedly not been the conventional wisdom, and most poll results seem to confirm that Sanders has more support among the young. But this one, which explicitly measures enthusiasm, shows no difference. Apparently young liberals are just as excited about a Clinton presidency as a Sanders one.

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