Frank Luntz on the youth vote

When the star Republican pollster and spin master reveals this you know it's true. What's even better is that he hasn't found a way to manipulate the Millennials with his spin, as the latter are just too savvy these days due in large part to social media giving them the information they need to overcome the spin. A brief excerpt. See his article for much more detail.

"The Republican Party doesn’t have a problem with younger voters. Younger voters have a problem with the Republican Party, and it is rapidly becoming a long-term electoral crisis. [...] The problem, or 'crisis' if you're an active Republican, is in their political identification. Fully 44% identify themselves as Democrats, higher in my polling than any age cohort in America. By comparison, about 15% call themselves Republican, lower than any age cohort. The remaining 42% say they’re independent, but on issue after issue they lean toward the Democrats. It’s not that young people love the Democratic Party — they don’t. But they reject the Republican Party and the corporate interests it appears to represent. Democrats can live with this dynamic. Republicans might die by it."