With the "millennial"
generation projected
to surpass the number of "baby boomers" in the United States, the
youth vote continues to be a key voting bloc for national presidential
candidates.
Despite an overall decline in
participation of voters under 30 between 2008 and 2012, exit poll data from
2012 showed a majority of young voters went to the polls for President Obama, especially
in swing states.
The power of the youth vote has not gone
unnoticed by Democrats and Republicans, who are hoping to court the more than 46
million eligible 18 to 29-year-old voters ahead of the 2016 election. And
with a rapidly growing Asian-American electorate that is expected
to double by 2040, both the Democratic National Committee and Republican
National Committee are also launching new ways to court young Asian-American
voters.
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Source: NBC News
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