Source: Time

By Philip Elliott / Athens, Ohio

Millennials outnumber baby boomers

The president of the College Democrats at Ohio University first realized there was a problem several weeks back during a back-to-school campus activity fair. Sam Miller had set up a table on the leafy College Green to help recruit new members on the liberal campus in the foothills of Appalachia. But then she noticed that the Republican table next to her was getting more interest than hers. “They had a ton of people coming up to them,” she recalls.

It was an early warning sign. Even though Hillary Clinton has been leading in the polls, she has been trailing in her own goal to motivate and excite the young voters that formed the core of Barack Obama’s winning coalition in 2008 and 2012. Obama won 60% of these voters under the age of 30 during the re-election campaign, according to 2012 exit polls. Clinton’s support stands at 48% in these ages, according to a CBS News/New York Timespoll released Sept. 15. Among the same voters, Republican nominee Donald Trump trails at 29% support, and 21% of respondents said they would support another candidate or stay at home.

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