Biden's older voters are showing up. Sanders' young voters aren't

Authored by edition.cnn.com and submitted by cosmicucumber

Washington (CNN) Super Tuesday was not so super for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. He lost most of the states up for grabs, and it's quite possible that he'll end up with fewer delegates on the evening than chief rival former Vice President Joe Biden.

Sanders' struggles reflect an inability to connect with older voters, while at the same time failing to generate large youth turnout.

We saw a very familiar age gap across the Super Tuesday states. Sanders crushed it with younger voters. Looking across all the contests with an exit poll , Sanders won an astounding 61% to Biden's 17% among voters under 30 years old. He even beat Biden by 20 points (43% to 23%) among those between 30 years old and 44 years old.

Sanders, however, struggled mightily with older voters. Biden won by 22 points (42% to 20%) with voters 45 years old to 64 years old. With senior citizens (those 65 years and older), Sanders managed to come in third with 15% (behind Biden's 48% and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg 's 19%).

Now you might be tempted to look at those numbers and see that Sanders won those under 45 years old by more than he lost those 45 years and older.

guitardummy on March 5th, 2020 at 04:41 UTC »

Go MICHIGAN! You can do it! Bring your friends to the polls!

Violet_Goth on March 5th, 2020 at 01:05 UTC »

Everybody seems to be of the mindset of "oh, my vote doesn't matter anyway" and that's exactly how you make sure your vote doesn't matter.

freebasingpolitics on March 5th, 2020 at 00:36 UTC »

voter suppression is in effect in primaries, too. Plenty of people try to vote and wind up in crazy lines. People in some places were waiting in line until after midnight to vote.