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There's a reason why Hillary Clinton today is campaigning -- again --
with Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire: She has some work to do with young
voters. In last week's NBC/WSJ poll, she was running 16 points ahead of
Donald Trump among registered voters ages 18-34, 50%-34%. But that
margin decreases to 12 points when you add Libertarian Gary Johnson and
the Green Party's Jill Stein to the mix: Clinton 38%, Trump 26%, Johnson
17%, and Stein 5%. (Indeed, those percentages for Johnson and Stein
were almost double their support among all voters.) Maybe more
importantly, young voters aren't as interested in the election as older
voters are. In the poll, 50% of those 18-34 registered as either 9s or
10s on a 10-point interest scale, compared with 67% for those 35-49, 79%
for those 50-64, and 80% for those 65 and older. As we learned in 2012,
this lower interest doesn't mean these younger voters won't vote; in
fact, we saw plenty of 5s and 6s and 7s turn out for Barack Obama. But
Clinton clearly has some work to do. She appears with Sanders at the
University of New Hampshire in Durham at 2:15 pm ET.
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Source: NBC News
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