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by mhb 3505 days ago
Clinton received a lower share of the vote among young voters (ages 18-29) than Obama received in 2012 or 2008.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/behind-trump...

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That's fine. My position isn't based on making sure my party wins. It obviously has a liberal slant just due to old people being more conservative for obvious reasons, but the real goal is fairness in "your vote is proportional to how long you have to suffer the consequences of it."

I didn't vote for Clinton either, because she's not a liberal. She's a center-right candidate who is further to the right than Obama was (also a center-right candidate.) She was also far worse at giving motivational speeches, and after she and the DNC threw Bernie under the bus, it's not at all surprising she did poorly with younger voters.