In the IowaCaucuses, Biden wants older voters to dominate, while Sanders is hoping for a youth turnout surge.
“This sample has only 24% over the age of [65],” Anzalone wrote. “There could be up to 30% over the age of 65 going to the Iowa caucuses.”
But J. Ann Selzer, who conducts the state’s definitive poll for the Des Moines Register, said she has yet to see evidence of a surge of new voters.told WNYC’s “Politics with Amy Walter” On Monday, Biden held events at two different college campuses ― at Iowa and at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls ― and drew much smaller crowds. His event at Northern Iowa, in particular, had almost no students in attendance.
“Your generation is a situation where you’re the least prejudiced, the most open, you’re the best educated, but until recently ― and then thank God, this has changed ― you haven’t been very interested in politics, generally,” he said. “And so now you’re engaged and I’m looking forward to you voting and voting in big numbers. But everyone is voting in bigger numbers as well.
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