Saturday thread for July 17-23, 2022: Why are young Democrats so down on Biden?
Here is a passage from a recent article about the New York Times/Siena College poll published earlier this month:
A survey from The New York Times and Siena College found that just 1 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds strongly approve of the way Mr. Biden is handling his job. And 94 percent of Democrats under 30 said they wanted another candidate to run two years from now. Of all age groups, young voters were most likely to say they wouldn’t vote for either Mr. Biden or Mr. Trump in a hypothetical 2024 rematch.
… only 32 percent [are] saying they are “almost certain” to vote in November, according to the poll. Nearly half said they did not think their vote made a difference.
This is a huge problem for the party. While 62% of voters under 30 cast ballot for Biden in 2020, according to an analysis by Catalist, a political data firm, only 19% approve of the president overall (with the aforementioned 1% strong disapproval) in the new Times poll. And while I think that is an underestimate of his t…



