A funny thing happened this primary season in America, young folks showed up to vote. Specifically, unlike the chart I show above (from www.electproject.org/...), this primary season 18-30 year olds are voting at the same rate as older voters (www.nytimes.com/...).
Eyeballing that chart, it looks like the normal young voter rate is around 20% lower than the rate for all voters, depending on the cycle you are looking at it might be closer to 15%. Who are those young voters coming out to support?
Well, again and again, Bernie Sanders wins those voters by unheard of margins.
So here is the question we need to ask. Will those literally millions of young voters show up to vote for Hillary? Are they showing up because they suddenly realized that any Democrat is better than whoever the Republicans nominate, or are they showing up for Bernie? This is a REALLY important question that people need to ask, not only for the Presidential contest, but for the Senate too. Maybe Clinton will win despite not getting out the young vote (see Donald Trump), but if she wins while a lot of Democratic Senate nominees lose, she could find herself facing a fully Republican congress for the duration of her presidency (we are not going to win Senate seats in 2018, it is an off year and we will be playing defense for the Senators who got the Obama coattails in 2012).
What is more important, the first female President, or the Senate?