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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on February 16, 2016, 09:24:51 PM
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Hillary Clinton’s Candidacy Reveals Generational Schism Among Women
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/us/hillary-clintons-candidacy-reveals-generational-schism-among-women.html
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — In the sun-drenched student center on the Pennsylvania State University campus here, a few days after Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont trounced Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire Democratic primary last week, Renee Tillman, Melanie Suarez and Kamryn Sandidge were picking at their lunchtime salads when they were asked if they considered themselves feminists.
The three, all sophomores, shook their heads. “I couldn’t even tell you what a feminist is,†said Ms. Tillman, 19, who is African-American. She and her friends note that the nation already has a black president; they see themselves in a postgender world. As Ms. Sandidge, also African-American, said, “I don’t find gender that important.â€
The New York Times should go to DU, where the majority are 50 and older. They are very pro-Bernie Sanders.
This is really disheartening.
Younger voters are also generally more open to big government, a possible explanation for the appeal of Mr. Sanders, who calls himself a democratic socialist. John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Institute of Politics at Harvard, who has studied millennial voters the past 15 years, said his most consistent finding was that there are “surprisingly few differences†between the sexes.
An entitlement generation.