{"id":12600,"date":"2016-01-27T22:51:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T22:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12600"},"modified":"2016-01-27T22:51:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T22:51:20","slug":"sanders-support-may-be-elusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12600","title":{"rendered":"Sanders support may be elusive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/90M1ER0H26.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12602\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12602\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/90M1ER0H26-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"90M1ER0H26\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/90M1ER0H26-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/90M1ER0H26-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/90M1ER0H26-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/90M1ER0H26.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A word of caution is due for those who believe U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has some serious momentum building as he seeks the Democratic presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen the polls that show Sanders&#8217; huge base of support among young people. He leads Hillary Clinton by wide margins among voters who are 25 years of age and younger.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the good news &#8212; from Sanders&#8217; standpoint.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news? Young people don&#8217;t vote with nearly the same intensity as their elders.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen the data locally. Potter and Randall County elections officials sent out data that suggest that younger voters didn&#8217;t turn out as many folks hoped they would\u00a0in the November municipal election. Older folks turned out &#8212; as they usually do.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pattern we&#8217;ve seen over many decades at many political levels. Whether voting for president or mayor or sheriff, young Americans aren&#8217;t dedicated to voting.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I remain dubious about the support Sanders and his campaign brass keep\u00a0hyping as he seeks to peel away the presidential nomination from the one-time prohibitive Democratic Party favorite.<\/p>\n<p>The Iowa caucus is coming up. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/01\/bernie-sanders-iowa-caucuses-218299\">Sanders said a large turnout\u00a0<\/a>will bode well for his chances. True enough. A large turnout can be made more possible by the participation of young voters.<\/p>\n<p>History, though, isn&#8217;t on Sanders&#8217; side.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A word of caution is due for those who believe U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has some serious momentum building as he seeks the Democratic presidential nomination. I&#8217;ve seen the polls that show Sanders&#8217; huge base of support among young people. He leads Hillary Clinton by wide margins among voters who are 25 years of age &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12600\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sanders support may be elusive<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,14],"tags":[597,2139,2308,5899],"class_list":["post-12600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-iowa-caucus","tag-young-voters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12603,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600\/revisions\/12603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}