According to the most recent Quinnipiac his favorability rating with those under 35 is a staggeringly bad 30%. Maybe just maybe for the party that pretty much needs to win young voters nominating someone they hate doesn't make sense? I dunno just a thought.

https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-det...aseID=3658

3. Is your opinion of Joe Biden favorable, unfavorable or haven't you heard enough about him?
WHITE......
COLLEGE DEG
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Yes No

Favorable 43% 11% 78% 40% 37% 49% 44% 30%
Unfavorable 43 80 12 42 50 37 47 56
Hvn't hrd enough 12 8 9 15 11 13 8 11
REFUSED 2 1 1 4 3 2 1 3

AGE IN YRS.............. WHITE.....
18-34 35-49 50-64 65+ Men Wom Wht Blk Hsp

Favorable 30% 44% 44% 55% 31% 42% 37% 76% 46%
Unfavorable 49 42 45 37 59 44 51 9 34
Hvn't hrd enough 19 12 9 7 7 11 9 14 19
REFUSED 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 1 1

No he doesn’t.

Bernies entire campaign was based on getting the young votes, and he won that group by big margins, and he still got crushed.

You don’t sacrifice black voter turnout and midwestern swing voters for a group that doesn’t vote lol. And even with Biden, Democrats are still going to win the youth vote, just like Hillary and Obama and every other modern democrat has. And it won’t matter because 80% of them don’t vote.

(04-09-2020 04:56 PM)HappyAppy Wrote:  No he doesn’t.

Bernies entire campaign was based on getting the young votes, and he won that group by big margins, and he still got crushed.

You don’t sacrifice black voter turnout and midwestern swing voters for a group that doesn’t vote lol. And even with Biden, Democrats are still going to win the youth vote, just like Hillary and Obama and every other modern democrat has. And it won’t matter because 80% of them don’t vote.

+1

Plus from the OP link, one of the questions says who would you vote for today - Biden or Trump. In the 18-34 age group, Biden is +12. The only group he has a larger lead is 65+ (+13). How is that a problem?

And furthermore, Trump's approval ratings for 18-34 is 33 pct favorable, 57 pct unfavorable (compared to 30/49 for Biden).

If Biden has a MAJOR youth problem as you put it, how would you classify Trump's youth problem?

Biden SHOULD have major problems across all ages and demographics if the MSM would actually do their job as neutral recorders of events. The man is suffering from dementia but not a peep about it from our “Fourth Branch of Government”...

(04-09-2020 05:17 PM)miko33 Wrote:  Biden SHOULD have major problems across all ages and demographics if the MSM would actually do their job as neutral recorders of events. The man is suffering from dementia but not a peep about it from our “Fourth Branch of Government”...

Imagine if Trump showed up to podium and began speaking in disjointed non-sense "word salad" sentences that amount to gibberish. I question whether Biden even has enough remaining mental function to safely operate a motor vehicle at this point. The idea that nearly half the nation and virtually all the "fake news" press is pretending Biden is a legitimate choice to run the free world is absolutely chilling.

(04-09-2020 06:06 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(04-09-2020 05:17 PM)miko33 Wrote:  Biden SHOULD have major problems across all ages and demographics if the MSM would actually do their job as neutral recorders of events. The man is suffering from dementia but not a peep about it from our “Fourth Branch of Government”...

Imagine if Trump showed up to podium and began speaking in disjointed non-sense "word salad" sentences that amount to gibberish. I question whether Biden even has enough remaining mental function to safely operate a motor vehicle at this point. The idea that nearly half the nation and virtually all the "fake news" press is pretending Biden is a legitimate choice to run the free world is absolutely chilling.

Idiocracy, life imitates "art".

(04-09-2020 06:06 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(04-09-2020 05:17 PM)miko33 Wrote:  Biden SHOULD have major problems across all ages and demographics if the MSM would actually do their job as neutral recorders of events. The man is suffering from dementia but not a peep about it from our “Fourth Branch of Government”...

Imagine if Trump showed up to podium and began speaking in disjointed non-sense "word salad" sentences that amount to gibberish. I question whether Biden even has enough remaining mental function to safely operate a motor vehicle at this point. The idea that nearly half the nation and virtually all the "fake news" press is pretending Biden is a legitimate choice to run the free world is absolutely chilling.

Yep, and China salivating for a Biden presidency where they know they could manhandle him in every way knowing his stance on them. They'd just wave those China bucks in front of him and his son and they know they could buy him like the Cosa Nostra. It would be like the US would become a satellite of China with Bite'em in charge, and China would be in seventh heaven. Whoopee, no more tariffs. We'd go back to the way it was when they were screwing us without lubrication.

He’ll be on heavy doses of Numenda shortly, timed well enough to get him through November, and the stuff does work.

Until it doesn’t work. Then the slide is fast and precipitous.

(04-09-2020 04:56 PM)HappyAppy Wrote:  No he doesn’t.

Bernies entire campaign was based on getting the young votes, and he won that group by big margins, and he still got crushed.

You don’t sacrifice black voter turnout and midwestern swing voters for a group that doesn’t vote lol. And even with Biden, Democrats are still going to win the youth vote, just like Hillary and Obama and every other modern democrat has. And it won’t matter because 80% of them don’t vote.

I agree. Biden does nothing to get the youth vote out to the polls and why again Trump will win in a similar fashion to last time. Trumps base is solid and will hold.

(04-09-2020 05:09 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  

(04-09-2020 04:56 PM)HappyAppy Wrote:  No he doesn’t.

Bernies entire campaign was based on getting the young votes, and he won that group by big margins, and he still got crushed.

You don’t sacrifice black voter turnout and midwestern swing voters for a group that doesn’t vote lol. And even with Biden, Democrats are still going to win the youth vote, just like Hillary and Obama and every other modern democrat has. And it won’t matter because 80% of them don’t vote.

+1

Plus from the OP link, one of the questions says who would you vote for today - Biden or Trump. In the 18-34 age group, Biden is +12. The only group he has a larger lead is 65+ (+13). How is that a problem?

And furthermore, Trump's approval ratings for 18-34 is 33 pct favorable, 57 pct unfavorable (compared to 30/49 for Biden).

If Biden has a MAJOR youth problem as you put it, how would you classify Trump's youth problem?

Trump's poor youth numbers were already baked into the 2016 results. Seems now they are moving away from the democrats as well. That is bad news for Biden.

(04-09-2020 05:09 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  

(04-09-2020 04:56 PM)HappyAppy Wrote:  No he doesn’t.

Bernies entire campaign was based on getting the young votes, and he won that group by big margins, and he still got crushed.

You don’t sacrifice black voter turnout and midwestern swing voters for a group that doesn’t vote lol. And even with Biden, Democrats are still going to win the youth vote, just like Hillary and Obama and every other modern democrat has. And it won’t matter because 80% of them don’t vote.

+1

Plus from the OP link, one of the questions says who would you vote for today - Biden or Trump. In the 18-34 age group, Biden is +12. The only group he has a larger lead is 65+ (+13). How is that a problem?

And furthermore, Trump's approval ratings for 18-34 is 33 pct favorable, 57 pct unfavorable (compared to 30/49 for Biden).

If Biden has a MAJOR youth problem as you put it, how would you classify Trump's youth problem?

I'd classify those numbers as typical. When a Democrat's Q rating among the 18-35 demographic is below the Republicans, that's a huge, huge problem. You can count on the black vote all you want, but they're still 12% of the population. The youth that might push Biden over the top in some states will stay home after Bernie's campaign failed like it did.

It doesn't matter if a group answers a question with "I'd like choice A over choice B" when they detest both and can walk away from choosing either at any time.

Democrats lost me with the Clintons. Then I was brought back into the fold with Obama, until he named Hildabeast Clinton as Secretary of State.

(04-11-2020 02:55 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  Democrats lost me with the Clintons. Then I was brought back into the fold with Obama, until he named Hildabeast Clinton as Secretary of State.

I'm just the opposite. My two favorite democrats are Bill #1 (although I liked President Bill a lot more than the Bill of today) and Hillary #2. And I thought Obama was a crypto-socialist/communist who failed to destroy our country only because he was too incompetent a leader to get his agenda implemented.

Had Hillary been in this year's presidential race, I would have punted local elections to take a democrat ballot in order to vote for her. And I think she should be doing 20-40 in Leavenworth for her security violations. So, let's see, I think that the democrat I like best among those eligible for the presidency should be in prison. Yeah, that pretty accurately sums up how I feel about democrats.

Democrats have always tried to “get the vote” out or any other corny slogan to get young people to show up at the polls. I remember when they used to place commercials on MTV. When your candidate is Mondale or Dukakis you try anything.

Republicans have never targeted young people in their campaigns. The GOP knows what Bernie has now discovered in two primary seasons: young people get excited for a candidate; just not excited enough to go through the hassle of going to the polls and voting.

Louisville’s Muhammad Ali once said
“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.“

In short, everyone is a Democrat before they know any better. Then they grow up.

(04-11-2020 05:53 AM)CardinalJim Wrote:  Democrats have always tried to “get the vote” out or any other corny slogan to get young people to show up at the polls. I remember when they used to place commercials on MTV. When your candidate is Mondale or Dukakis you try anything.

Republicans have never targeted young people in their campaigns. The GOP knows what Bernie has now discovered in two primary seasons: young people get excited for a candidate; just not excited enough to go through the hassle of going to the polls and voting.

Louisville’s Muhammad Ali once said
“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.“

In short, everyone is a Democrat before they know any better. Then they grow up.

Great line from a great TV show Freaks and Geeks. Dad of the main family says at dinner "Everyone is a democrat until they make a little money"