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.

  • go_go_gadget@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 year ago

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

    Alright. Why did they like Biden more than Bernie?

    • aesthelete@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year 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.