"While this is an off-year election there’s no evidence in this survey that young Americans are off the grid. "Elected officials from both parties would benefit from listening to young Americans and as we head into the midterm elections.” Our new poll shows a pragmatic idealism as they consider the state of our democracy and the concerning challenges they face in their lives,” said IOP Director Mark Gearan ‘78. “In the past two election cycles, America’s youngest voters have proven themselves to be a formidable voting bloc with a deep commitment to civic engagement. The Spring 2022 survey, conducted between March 15 and March 30, also builds upon the work of the Spring 2021 and Fall 2021 polls to examine the troubling mental health crisis among young Americans.
And the poll also finds that at two-to-one margins, young Americans are supportive of greater parental control over K-12 education and supportive of candidates that support teaching K-12 students that racism – intentional or not – is a fixture of American laws and institutions.įor over twenty years, the Harvard Public Opinion Project has provided the most comprehensive look at the political opinions, voting trends, and views on public service held by young Americans. When it comes to student loans, 85% of young Americans favor some form of government action on student loan debt, but only 38% favor total debt cancellation. Nearly half of LGBTQ youth feel under attack “a lot.” The Spring 2022 Harvard Youth Poll finds that 59% of young Black Americans, 43% of young Asian Americans, and 37% of young Hispanic Americans feel “under attack” “a lot” in America. President Biden’s job approval has dropped to 41% among young Americans, down from 46% in the IOP Fall 2021 poll and down 18% overall in the past year. Given this composition of the electorate, not surprisingly, more voters reported having a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party (49 percent) than the Republican Party (43 percent).A national poll released today by the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School indicates that while 18-to-29-year-olds are on track to match 2018’s record-breaking youth turnout in a midterm election this November and prefer Democratic control 55%-34%, there was a sharp increase in youth believing that “political involvement rarely has tangible results” (36%), their vote “doesn’t make a difference” (42%) and agreement that “politics today are no longer able to meet the challenges our country is facing” (56%). That year, they leaned Republican by 12 points, but this election they supported Democrats by 12 points. While these partisan voters continued to display high levels of party loyalty in this year's House elections, independent voters flipped their partisan preference sharply compared to 2014. This represents a shift from 2014 midterm election, when more Republicans showed up at the polls (36 to 35 percent). More self-identified Democrats than Republicans headed to the polls this year (37 to 33 percent). Increased representation of Democrats at the polls also contributed to Democratic victories in the House. A similar 88 percent of those who approved of Trump voted for the Republican House candidate. Among disapprovers, 90 percent voted for the Democratic House candidate. Trump among all voters, only 44 percent of approved his job performance, with 54 disapproving. Election 2018: A night of historic firsts.Of the 26 percent of voters who said that a reason for their vote was to support Trump, the vast majority voted for a Republican candidate. Over a third of voters (38 percent) attributed their vote partially to opposing Trump, and almost all of them said they voted for the Democratic candidate.
This was a House election centered around sharply polarized reactions to the presidency of Donald Trump.Įxit polling shows that over two-thirds of voters explicitly said that one reason for the vote for the U.S.
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