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Here’s
a question that will be chewed over a lot as the two parties rumble toward
2016: Are young voters up for grabs?
The
youth vote not long ago appeared to belong to the Democratic Party, but that
grip has weakened since Barack Obama
twice racked up huge margins among younger voters. Less clear is whether the GOP can pick up
the slack.
Among
those eyeing 2016 bids, both Hillary Clinton and Republican Sen. Rand
Paul have recently made pitches to young voters. Mrs. Clinton hit
on education and the troubles in the job market; Sen. Paul appealed
to queasiness over government surveillance. These early
skirmishes will get a lot louder over the next two years.
It
would be a stretch to say millennials are warming to the GOP. Just a quarter of
those under 35 said they had positive feelings toward the Republican Party in
the last Wall Street
Journal/NBC News poll, which came out two weeks ago.
At
the same time, millennials aren’t exactly in love with the Democratic Party.
Soon after Mr. Obama took office in 2009, nearly half looked favorably on the
Democrats. That number has since slipped to 36%.
Younger
voters have also soured on Mr. Obama.
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