Unpopular With Young People
By Ed Kilgore
... the latest weekly Gallup approval-rating numbers for the president among 18-to-29-year-olds have hit ... 20 percent.
Trump’s approval rating in this age cohort has been sloping downward since late April, when it stood at .. 36 percent.
... Trump’s popularity is ... currently at 33 percent among 30-to-49-year-olds; 42 percent among 50-to-64-year-olds; and 43 percent among those over the age of 65. If you have to pick where to be strong or weak, this is the pattern you’d like in the very short term, since likelihood to vote is also more or less directly related to age. These Gallup numbers are not screened for voter registration, much less likelihood to vote, so the overall profile for Trump isn’t quite as bad as it looks when it comes to people who will, for example, be voting in 2018 ...
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/trump-is-really-really-unpopular-with-young-people.html
