Sam Wang and Scholastic Look Into the Future

Sam Wang’s Princeton Election Consortium is one of my fave election sites, and one of his commenters alerted him to this Scholastic Poll of 153,000 school-age kids that I find not only fascinating but cheering. Two big takeaways from the article and the comments section:

Young adults tend to retain the party identities they begin with so unless these kids change in the next ten or so years, this is the future of voting; and one possibility for the difference between adult and kid voting in some of these states is that voting is highly influenced by peer group, and the younger generations are much more diverse and therefore much more likely to look at nationalism, racism, xenophobia, and sexism as inexplicable stances. Go younger generations, that’s what I say. (The post and comments over there are well worth reading, as is most of the site.)

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