The most intriguing finding is about partisanship (framed not as party-identification but as party-vote):
- “When asked whether they would vote for the Democratic or Republican candidate in the 2026 congressional elections in their district, voters aged 22–29 favored the Democratic candidate by a margin of 6.4 points, but voters aged 18–21 favored the Republican by a margin of 11.7 points.” That said, all the Republican and Democratic figures associated with the 2024 election were net negative on favorability, and young voters are more than twice as disparaging of Trump, Vance and Musk than the general electorate.
Still, on almost all social issues, youth voters take more “liberal” positions than the electorate as a whole. I say this with a BIG caveat: It is not clear that they weighted the sample to consider college-educated/not.
- Young voters supported allowing asylum seekers to remain by a 25-point margin compared to voters overall who oppose this by a 2-point margin.
- Voters overall opposed the deportation of international students for protesting the war in Gaza by 36 points, while young voters opposed deportation by 65 points.
- “Voters under 30 were nearly split on whether teens aged 13 to 17 should be allowed access to gender transition treatments, opposing it by just a 0.1-point margin in comparison to the broader electorate, which opposed it by 24 points.”
There is lots more that is of interest in this survey.
Sample: “The poll sampled 4,100 self-reported registered voters, including 2,025 voters aged 18-29.”