Young energy: File photo from 2008 of young people cheering in the streets in Washington DC after Barack Obama’s historic win. Youth support for the Democrats has never reached such heights since and is currently sinking, say recent polls. — AFP
ONE of the most remarkable developments in the last two national elections in the United States was the surge in voting among young people, historically a low-turnout crowd that proved pivotal to Demo-crats winning a majority in the House of Representatives in 2018 and Joe Biden winning the presidency in 2021.
According to a poll of 18- to 29-year-olds released at the end of April by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, that turnout is on track to be as high as it was in the 2018 midterms. However, that may bode ill for Democrats: more young Republicans are eager to vote this year than in 2018, and among Democrats, the mojo is fading.
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