The Democratic Party, however, failed miserably to mobilize millennial voters, a crucial voting bloc that it has come to rely on recently for electoral victory.
Voters aged 18-29 made up only 13 percent of the total votes cast in the 2014 midterm elections, according to CNN exit polling data. Of this 13 percent, 54 percent went to the Democrats, while only 43 percent went to Republican candidates.
The problem with these statistics is that that they are either slightly better than what Democrats got in the 2010 midterms or well below what they got in 2012, when President Obama ran for re-election against former Republican Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
In 2010, for instance, voters aged 18-29 accounted for 12 percent of the total vote. Democrats got 55 percent of this vote in the infamous 2010 “red wave” midterm elections.
And the figures for the 2012 presidential election aren’t even close.
In 2012, voters aged 18-29 accounted for 19 percent of the total vote. Of that 19 percent, Democrats captured 60 percent, while Republicans got only 37 percent.
Now, it’s important to note that the electorate in presidential election years tends to be younger. The point here, however, is that the Democratic Party spared no expense in 2014 trying to turn out millennial voters. Indeed, the Democrats focused a great deal of time, money and energy on silly, celebrity-studded “get out the youth vote” gimmicks.
Apparently, this didn’t work out too well for the White House and its allies.
