All of the attention in Georgia is on the turnout of young voters
A Veteran Auditor Who Voted for Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Kamala Harris during the 2016/2020 Presidential Delay-Field Debate
The retired audiologist voted for Trump in 2016 and then Biden in 2020. Remensnyder said she owned three doctors’ practices. As a business owner, she said, “I thought I could trust Trump. He was a businessman, but he was an absolute disaster” from the start, Remensnyder said.
Remensnyder is a pro-choicer and she liked how Harris has advocated for women’s reproductive freedom.
Thiago is undecided about whether it is worth the trouble to vote for Kamala given she is reaching out to conservatives more than progressives in her party.
He watched the debate and said Trump and Biden were both off the ball, and Biden needed to step aside. Trump seems to inherit it and seemed like he was rattled by the other person.
Thiago said he’s still going to vote down-ballot, but short of Harris saying she will cut off weapons shipments to Israel, he likely will leave the presidential line blank.
He registered as a Republican and did not vote for him in 2020 because of some of the choices he made. He did not say which ones.
John is a registered independent originally from Nassau County, N.Y., and has a blue-collar background as the son of a firefighter. He describes himself as a liberal union Democrat. He voted twice for Barack Obama, and he thought Bill Clinton did a great job as president.
He did not vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016 due to personal experience, and she didn’t show up at an event he was involved with. In 2020, he said his son, who was 5 then, essentially cast his ballot for Biden, because he wanted to vote for him.
John said he’s not following the current presidential race that much, but did watch “a little bit” of the debate. His main concerns are housing affordability, groceries and gas prices.
“Trump was cuckoo for saying that the dogs and cats were being eaten,” John said, “but Kamala Harris wasn’t really answering any of the questions,” especially about the economy.
John said he wants to see something put forward to “stop the inflation.” John also doesn’t trust Harris (mispronouncing her name as “Camilla” at one point) because of her changed positions on things like fracking.
John thought Joe Biden did the best he could. “If he could have just grabbed the horns on inflation — things are through the roof. It has gone crazy.
Source: 10 undecided voters explain why they haven’t picked a side in this election
Why would a woman vote for president? A narcissistic misogynist and a good man can’t fool you, and why she wouldn’t
She thinks that a female president would do the country a lot of good. Why wouldn’t she give the other guy a try?
Annette usually votes Democratic. In June, she was undecided if she would vote at all because she was concerned about President Biden’s age and ability to do the job.
“They do not look at the whole picture,” she said of Trump supporters. “I’m sure after this second [assassination] attempt, they’ll be saying, ‘God is protecting him.’ It is just a bunch of crock.
Bohlman also brought up the siege at the Capitol on Jan. 6, which she said was “appalling,” called out GOP leaders’ hypocrisy in criticizing Trump initially and then trying to get back in his good graces, and she noted that she has lots of family members who are “adamantly pro-Trump.”
She said she was angry about the Supreme Court’s decision. “It’s so unfair that a bunch of men are making decisions for women. I think it’s terrible.
She went on to cite the overturning of Roe v. Wade abortion protections, which she blames squarely on Trump, as another motivating factor for her to vote for Harris.
The man said he would vote Democrat. I will vote for her. I liked the way she came across in the debate. She is very smart, and she knows where she is going. She doesn’t hinge her judgment on whether she likes someone or not.”
He said that he would never vote for Trump. I have not been able to stand the man since he came into the picture. I even took a book away from my 16-year-old son that [Trump] had written about making money. He didn’t make his money; he inherited it and lost it. He isn’t a good businessman. He’s not anything but a narcissistic misogynist.”
Proffitt said she will go out and vote this year. It is a right that I should exercise. I want to show my kids that’s a right.”
Proffitt did not see the debate or follow news about it afterward. She said she didn’t vote for president in 2020 and that she voted for Trump. She wants to do it this time.
She laughed and said he is lacking but the major Trumphaters are missing the whole point. They’re not looking at issues; they’re looking at personality.”
He felt Harris did almost too well, saying it was “almost like rehearsed.” He said he never got any message from Harris, but sheskirted issues, including the Biden administration’s inability to stop the flow of migrants and the economy.
She said this of her ideal ticket: “If RFK [Jr.] was on the ticket with [former Rep.] Tulsi Gabbard [of Hawaii], it would have been a slam dunk for me.”
Undecided voters explain why they haven’t picked a side in this election: Kamala Harris, the Green New Deal, and the Green Party
Of the debate, the respondent said, “I was like, OK, who are these people? They were like bad actors. Kamala, suddenly she was so articulate when it’s usually word salad. There was something weird going on there.”
He didn’t say he was a big Republican or a big Democrat. He voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders, the progressive independent from Vermont, in the 2016 primary and is now leaning toward Trump, independent Cornel West or the Green Party’s Jill Stein (not from an environmental standpoint, however, because he thinks the Green New Deal “went too far”).
He said he wanted to see Trump, whom he trusts more on the economy, debate again and was unaware that Trump had said he would not do another debate with Harris. When told that, Lee said he was “disappointed.”
Asked what specifically he doesn’t like, he said, “I can’t say I’m super knowledgeable about the specifics, but from a how-our-family-is-feeling standpoint, just not sure.”
Harris needed the debate to be important. Most who watched said she performed better than Trump. They were not all moved to vote for her as a result, but four who seemed to need a degree of reassurance about Harris are now voting for her or leaning Harris’ direction after the debate.
And while undecided voters often have unique reasons for what influences their votes, there was a clear gender divide. Four women say they’re voting for or leaning toward Harris. That shows the gender gap in polls between the candidates.
Source: 10 undecided voters explain why they haven’t picked a side in this election
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Many did not want to use their full names; some didn’t want us to use any name at all. Security concerns was cited by them. In a political environment, they were hesitant about giving away too much personally identifiable information.
Even as my wife and I are moving up in our careers, it doesn’t feel like it’s getting any easier for me to earn a middle-class income.
There were nearly four dozen undecided voters who gave permission to call them back in the last four months of the NPR/PBS News/Marist poll. To understand their current thinking and motivations, NPR tried them all and got in touch with 10 by phone in the days following the Harris-Trump debate. What we found was notable.
The majority of people have made a decision as to who they will vote for. Donald Trump is well known and polarizing because people either love or hate him. Vice President Harris is famous but voters don’t know her.
Depending on who they vote for, a few swing voters could decide the election, whether or not they stay home.
A Lot of Young Voters Are Age 43 and Younger Could Make a Big Difference In November? Reply to [An Associated Poll Report on Georgia’s Youngest People’s Lives]
He said that it would be nice to have a female president. “I guess she’s done a lot of political things, but I just haven’t seen them … Maybe she has ideas similar to mine.”
His mother was a military woman, which is why he voted for Trump in 2020. He said both sides are at the table, and he is interested in learning more about Harris.
The 21-year-old student said that he had to research more on his own. Are the Democrats really that bad? Or is it just that’s how I grew up thinking?”
A lot of girls in Atlanta have been rallied by that. “I think it’s scary for a lot of kids and girls my age because … We don’t know what’s happening next.
Top of mind for her right now is protecting reproductive healthcare. She heard about the death of a woman who wasn’t able to get an emergency abortion procedure at a hospital in Atlanta last month.
Source: As early voting nears in Georgia, all eyes are on whether young voters will turn out
How are you going to turn out? When we are going to get your kids involved in voter registration: From the Dream Game to early voter turnout in Georgia
According to data compiled by the Georgia Secretary of State, over half a million people under 30 years old have registered to vote in Georgia since July.
“I think it’s safe to say the deficit in new voter registration this year, compared to four years earlier, was largest among younger voters,” Bonier said. I don’t know how much that gap will be made up. I think it will.
This recent boost in registration has yet to reverse the downward trend of earlier in the campaign season. It remains unclear if that overall number can surpass or rival 2020 numbers by Election Day.
“That someone is actually taking the time and energy to go out and register to vote, it’s a sign that they are engaged,” he said. You can see it is concentrated among a group. It generally is indicative of that group … being much more engaged.”
Tom Bonier is a Democratic strategist with the firm Target Smart, which recently published a database of state-by-state data detailing these new registrations. Bonier argued that the spike is a sign of youth enthusiasm for Harris, as it is unclear who these new voters will support this fall.
But that may be shifting. During the week Biden dropped out and Harris took over, there were noticeable spikes in voter registration among young people, particularly young women and young women of color.
Voters under 30, notably younger Black, Latino and Asian American voters, handily supported President Biden in 2020. This year, many grew disappointed with their options as they stared down another rematch between Biden and former President Donald Trump.
“One of the things that we pride ourselves on is on, yes, getting young people registered to vote — we’re going to get that number as high as we possibly can — and then also following up with them to say, did you make a plan to vote? How are you voting? she explained.
The brainchild of former first lady Michelle Obama, When we All Vote is a voting initiative that often works with celebrities and national brands.
The executive director of When We All Vote stood by the registration table at the Dream game.
Source: As early voting nears in Georgia, all eyes are on whether young voters will turn out
Why do I want to stay in Georgia, so I’m afraid I won’t come here again, but I will have to prove that I voted last year
It’s unclear if young voters will show up this year. In Georgia, which President Biden won by less than half a point in 2020, voting starts on Oct. 15.
Jones still is not sure if ultimately she’ll vote in California or go through the process of updating her permanent address in order to vote in Georgia. A growing voting bloc is made up of a nursing student and dancer. Gen Z and young people will make up half of the eligible voting population this fall.
Sometimes, I will say, I don’t feel good, or I have pain, and sometimes doctors won’t hear me. She stated that the police officer may not care if she is feeling unsafe. “So my vote is something that I can say, I voted, and this was my part in making sure that I have a say in what happens in the day-to-day in society.”
A veteran auditor who voted for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris during the 2016/2020 presidential debate said he’s still going to vote down-ballot. Thiago said his son, who was 5 then, essentially cast his ballot for Joe Biden because he wanted to vote for him. He also doesn’t trust Kamala Harris because of her changed positions on things like fracking.