To be clear, polls show that President Barack Obama remains the favorite among 18- to 29-year-old registered voters, as he was in 2008. No one thinks the majority of young voters will support Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, in the Nov. 6 election.<\/p>\n
But the polls also hint at a \u201cschism\u201d between those who weren\u2019t old enough to vote in 2008 and their older twentysomething counterparts, says John Della Volpe, the polling director at Harvard University\u2019s Institute of Politics.<\/p>\n
In one poll, for instance, he found that 42 percent of 18- and 19-year-olds identified as \u201cconservative,\u201d compared with just over one-third who said they were \u201cliberal.\u201d By comparison, those proportions were nearly flipped for 22- to 24-year-olds: 39 percent said they were \u201cliberal,\u201d and a third called themselves \u201cconservative.\u201d It was much the same for older twentysomethings.<\/p>\n
Tina Wells, head of Buzz Marketing, an agency that tracks the attitudes of young people, has noticed this shift to the right. Her own researchers have found that the youngest adults are much more likely to label themselves \u201cconservative,\u201d \u201dmoderate\u201d or \u201cindependent\u201d than older millennials, a term for young adults who\u2019ve entered adulthood in the new millennium.<\/p>\n
Like a lot of youth experts, Wells thinks it has to do with one thing: the economy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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