{"id":1197,"date":"2004-10-08T10:41:13","date_gmt":"2004-10-08T14:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/young_voters\/"},"modified":"2004-10-08T10:41:13","modified_gmt":"2004-10-08T14:41:13","slug":"young_voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/young_voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve read a number of pieces which talk of high voter registration this year. Who are these new voters? I have no idea. But it’s safe to say that a lot of the people registering now are doing so because they were too young to vote in prior elections. And if Zogby’s polling is correct, that’s good news for Kerry<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Kerry leads big among 18-29 year olds (56%-31%) and Bush holds an impressive lead among 30-49 year olds (54%-38%) — but the two are tied among voters over 50.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another interesting nugget from Zogby, the “marriage gap”:<\/p>\n

The marriage gap is wide: Bush leads by 13 points among married voters (52%-39%) while Kerry has single voters by 27 points (57%-30%).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And in case you missed it Zogby offers a brightening picture for Kerry in the battleground states<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The latest Zogby Interactive poll<\/a> puts Mr. Kerry ahead of President Bush in 13 of the 16 closely contested states — two more states than the Massachusetts senator led before the debate and the most since August.
\n. . .
\nMr. Kerry moved ahead in two states (Ohio and Nevada) and increased his lead in seven others — though Mr. Kerry’s margin over Mr. Bush in Ohio, Arkansas and Florida was negligible — less than one percentage point. Mr. Bush’s lead narrowed in the three states (Missouri, Tennessee and West Virginia) that he remains ahead of Mr. Kerry. Overall, seven of Mr. Kerry\ufffds leads are within the margins of error, while all of Mr. Bush\ufffds leads are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The race is tight, but momentum appears to be going in the right direction. Another strong debate showing tonight will help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve read a number of pieces which talk of high voter registration this year. Who are these new voters? I have no idea. But it’s safe to say that a lot of the people registering now are doing so because they were too young to vote in prior elections. And if Zogby’s polling is correct, […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}