In September 2014, Fusion conducted a poll in which they called 1,200 millennial voters aged 18 to 34 to ask them where they stand on various political and social issues in the U.S.
The demographics:
- 59%?working full-time, 24%?working part-time or at home, 19% students, 8% unemployed
- 49% live with a significant other,?32% live with a roommate or their parents
- 27% earn less than 25K,
- 76% are college or?technical school graduates
- 57% have never been married
- 61% do not have children
- 91% are heterosexual
Here are some screenshots that I grabbed from the study.
The number of young adults who are religious is decreasing.
This should terrify the GOP.
Approval of Pres. Obama among millennials is divided down the middle by party lines, just like the country.
Minority young adults are more satisfied with Pres. Obama than white young adults are.
Young Democrats are more satisfied with Pres. Obama than the right wing would like for us to believe.
More bad news for the GOP! You can expect this number to continue growing.
Now if we can only make sure they VOTE, we’d be winning.
More bad news for the GOP! This article is full of doom for the GOP isn’t it?
They’re not hating their lives as much as the GOP would like.
This is tragic. Really.
This should be a crime.
Young adults are supportive of welcoming productive immigrants.
They are appalled at the border crisis.
And they “get it.”
This isn’t as big a number as we’d like to see. Expect this to grow as this generation ages.
They’re smarter than previous generations.
They have far less biases towards the LGBT community than previous generations. Sorry, Tea Party!
When these folks start voting, you can forget about marijuana being illegal.
Again, they’re smarter than previous generations. They trust NO ONE.
They overwhelmingly like Hillary.
They overwhelmingly are not united behind any?GOP candidate. Look how evenly spread out it is.
The entire study is embedded below.
What does all of this data mean? While they’re as concerned about the economy as previous generations have been, Millennials differ on social issues. All across the political spectrum, young adults are leaning increasingly left on most issues. Out of those who identify as Republicans, only six percent do so because of “traditional values.” The GOP best start focusing less on uteri and gays and more on the economy, privacy, and small government. That’s what these young people care about.
We’re always going to have Republicans in this country, most likely, but the hard right is going to lose its war. The crazies are going to die off and be replaced with a more logical generation.
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