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.

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    1 year ago

    I read an article earlier this week that actually explains this. They had a result that young people preferred Trump to Biden – but when they narrowed in on likely voters, it flipped to Biden. They noted that the individuals who preferred Trump tended to not vote in 2020.

    Make of this what you will. I’m not entirely sure myself how to interpret this.

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        1 year ago

        Pft of course haha

        Polling companies need to figure out a new strategy. Their current methodology isn’t working. For a poll to be accurate it needs to be a simple random sample. It’s tricky to do, but clearly what we have now is insufficient.