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Young voters overwhelmingly say they would support President Biden over former President Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up if the 2024 presidential election were held today, according to a poll released Wednesday.

In the Economist/YouGov poll — conducted via web-based interviews Dec. 16-18 — more than half (53 percent) of registered voters under 30 said they would support Biden, and less than a quarter (24 percent) said they would support Trump.

Another 10 percent said they would support another candidate, 4 percent said they were not sure, and 9 percent said they wouldn’t vote.

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[–] Adubya@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Biden is a great president and best panacea to the ugliness of current politics. Feel free to not like him though. Nothing against polls but it is still far out so even as a Biden supporter I'm not going to wave this poll around like I'm Dean Phillips.

[–] TechyDad@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

One of the political sites I frequent that keeps track of polling data has a phrase they repeat often "in politics, a week of a long time." It means that a week from now, some scandal or major local/national/world event could occur and the polls from now could be useless.

And if a week is a long time, then 11 months before the election is forever. You might as well poll for DeSantis vs Newsom in 2028. It would be just about as accurate.

By November, there are a lot of factors that could change which could alter the polling figures/voting results. Maybe Trump is convicted. That could drive people away from him or it could strengthen the right as they flock to him to "save" their leader. Maybe once Biden is the official nominee (as opposed to virtually the only candidate officially recognized by the party), Democrats will flock back to him or maybe people will follow through on their threats and refuse to vote in 2024. Maybe in 11 months, Biden will be boosted by a booming economy or maybe something will happen to cause a crash that pulls his numbers down. Maybe the situations in Israel, Ukraine, the border, etc will change to boost or hurt Biden's numbers.

And this is just stuff we know about now. For all we know, the headlines in October of 2024 could be about some major event that we have no clue about now. For example, the headlines in December 2019 were not about a global pandemic. If I was typing this in December 2019, "Trump will be hurt by his response to a global pandemic that shuts down nearly everything" would not have been in my listings."

If Biden is down in the polls in September or October, I'll worry, but I'm not going to worry about polls in December 2023.

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[–] mob@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

It's wild how many YouGov polls hit the front page of Lemmy. Regardless if you like the results or not, the polls are worthless trash that means nothing.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

NYT did a new poll with a likely voter screen and likely voters prefer Biden too.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The kids are alright. Aint nobody younger than 50 who isn't a complete chud falling for that shit again.

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I mean that's 53%. This demographic is supposed to be the one Biden is relying on to win, so this is a disastrous number.

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[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (13 children)

9% said they wouldn’t vote, but how many actually won’t bother going to the polls?

It’s true that abortion drove out young voters, but I’m interested to see how long that bump goes on for

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

I believe we'll just get them in the mail here. Should be standard everywhere tbh

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