I guarantee you the Dems will do nothing about this issue because they lose more votes caving to that minority than they gain pursuing it.
Like what you see is “student groups in my college are protesting genocide” and what most people are is “these colleges are getting really antisemitic, and that’s a problem.”
Neither of those groups are correct, but one is significantly larger and more reliable as a voting bloc than the other
The young adult group is actually in favor of trump by 10% iirc – but if you narrow your scope to likely young voters, it flips back to Biden (same with the poll overall for everyone surveyed vs likely voters). Those who disapproved of Biden were more likely to have not voted in 2020.
This should be a red flag to anyone who believes non voters withholding a vote will cause Democrats to change positions. A non voter threatening not to vote is frankly meaningless. If you’re looking at reliable voters who want you to support A, and unreliable voters who want you to support B, why would you cater to the unreliable voter viewpoint (absent any moral context)? Young people who voted for Biden in 2020 have far more leverage and influence than their counterparts who didn’t vote.
I guarantee you the Dems will do nothing about this issue because they lose more votes caving to that minority than they gain pursuing it.
Like what you see is “student groups in my college are protesting genocide” and what most people are is “these colleges are getting really antisemitic, and that’s a problem.”
Neither of those groups are correct, but one is significantly larger and more reliable as a voting bloc than the other
There’s a great NYT poll which demonstrates this actually.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/us/politics/biden-israel-gaza-poll.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
The young adult group is actually in favor of trump by 10% iirc – but if you narrow your scope to likely young voters, it flips back to Biden (same with the poll overall for everyone surveyed vs likely voters). Those who disapproved of Biden were more likely to have not voted in 2020.
This should be a red flag to anyone who believes non voters withholding a vote will cause Democrats to change positions. A non voter threatening not to vote is frankly meaningless. If you’re looking at reliable voters who want you to support A, and unreliable voters who want you to support B, why would you cater to the unreliable voter viewpoint (absent any moral context)? Young people who voted for Biden in 2020 have far more leverage and influence than their counterparts who didn’t vote.
Bold strategy, I guess we’ll see how that works out for them.