Young voters overwhelmingly say they would support President Biden over former President Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up if the 2024 presidential election were held today, according t…

Young voters overwhelmingly say they would support President Biden over former President Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up if the 2024 presidential election were held today, according to a poll released Wednesday.

In the Economist/YouGov poll — conducted via web-based interviews Dec. 16-18 — more than half (53 percent) of registered voters under 30 said they would support Biden, and less than a quarter (24 percent) said they would support Trump.

Another 10 percent said they would support another candidate, 4 percent said they were not sure, and 9 percent said they wouldn’t vote.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
    1·
    11 months ago

    Lots of people did vote for someone else in the 2020 primaries. This good variety of candidates that you claim existed only existed in the early rounds. Once Super Tuesday arrived, it was practically Bernie and Biden (everyone else was so far behind in vote percentages that they might as well not even been on the ballots). After Super Tuesday, the field narrowed even further to be exactly Bernie and Biden in the last remaining contests.

    After Biden won South Carolina, and one day before the Super Tuesday primaries, several moderate candidates dropped out of the race and endorsed Biden in what was viewed as a consolidation of the party’s moderate wing.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries

    So, why would someone vote for Biden over Bernie in these contests you’re asking? It’s simple; they liked Biden more than Bernie.

    • go_go_gadget@lemmy.world
      11·
      11 months ago

      It’s simple; they liked Biden more than Bernie.

      Alright. Why did they like Biden more than Bernie?

      • aesthelete@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        There’s any number of reasons for that. I didn’t like Biden at all but off of the top of my head:

        1. Bernie was painted in the media as a socialist / communist / big mean pinko that was going to start a revolution to cut all of the CEOs heads off
        2. Bernie was perceived as being as big of an extremist as Trump, just in a different direction
        3. Biden had previous government experience in the executive wing of government, and was something of a known quantity…this was comforting to some as people were exhausted by Trump and wanted to get back to some semblance of “normal”

        I could go on further, but you should understand the themes here.

        As an aside, despite not being overwhelmingly delighted with Biden’s presidency, I am happy to not have the daily pants shitting, diaper-baby in the whitehouse headlines that we had during Trump’s four years…and the competency with which Biden largely handled one of the only federal programs I cared about in 2020 (i.e. the distribution of COVID vaccinations) was refreshing after 4 years of complete and utter idiocy in the executive branch.