Obama Preferred Over Romney in Harvard Poll of ‘Millennials’
By John McCormick - Apr 24, 2012 1:05 PM ET
President Barack Obama holds a 17- point lead over Mitt Romney among younger voters, a nationwide survey by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics shows.
Obama is preferred over the former Massachusetts governor by 43 percent to 26 percent among Americans ages 18 to 29, a group often referred to as millennials because they came of age in this millennium. Almost a third in the age group are undecided.
In 2008, voters 18 to 29 supported Obama 66 percent to 32 percent for Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain of Arizona, exit polls showed.
“We’re seeing an uptick in support among America’s younger voters for the president, for his job performance and for his electoral chances in November,” Trey Grayson, the institute’s director, told reporters on a conference call today. “However, in potentially good news for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, the president continues to struggle with key segments of the millennial demographic, even those which helped power him to victory over Senator McCain in 2008.”
The Harvard survey found that Obama’s job approval among all the millennials sampled has risen 6 percentage points, to 52 percent, since a comparable poll four months ago. Among Hispanics in this age group, the president’s approval has jumped 14 percentage points, to 66 percent. Among white millennials, Obama’s approval is 41 percent.
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