Generations that like Obama are voting for Clinton, and generations that don’t like Obama are voting for Trump. The only real exception is the under-25 group. (If Clinton’s numbers among younger millennials matched their approval of Obama, her overall lead would be about 2 percentage points larger.)
Under-25 voters aren’t backing Trump in unusually large numbers. Instead, they’re either backing a third-party candidate or saying they’re undecided. (Bernie Sanders did especially well with those under-25 voters in the Democratic primary.) Indeed, when SurveyMonkey asks 18- to 24-year-old voters to choose between Clinton and Trump (i.e., no Johnson or Stein), Clinton’s lead expands from 13 percentage points to 23. That’s the biggest jump for Clinton among age groups between the four-way and two-way race.
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