And they called me crazy when I said this was a generational thing.
Hillary is watching her support wane from just about every demographic, and her campaign is desperately clinging to every vote it can for survival. She’s still strong among working class whites, especially women, and older voters. Fair enough. But compared to Barack’s rock-star-like popularity among younger voters, who are registering, donating, and volunteering in record numbers, there just won’t be enough to make up the difference. She’s tried making the case over and over again that she can represent the interests of the "youth", using (for lack of a more colorful term) Chelsea’s bland popularity to appeal to sororities and youth organizations across the country. She has even managed to generate a kind of muted enthusiasm among young women, who are truly torn between the possibility of electing a woman, a gender-affirming act, and being drawn into the decidedly male but alluringly charismatic circle of Barack Obama’s social movement disguised as a political campaign.
And then Bill Clinton had to open his big mouth and, essentially, declare a generational war.
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