Posted on 11/19/2016 8:55:40 AM PST by rktman
Democratic donor Tom Steyer dumped tens of millions of dollars in a failed attempt at herding young people to vote against President-elect Donald Trump.
Steyer’s $25 million campaign simply did not produce results. In fact, young voters stayed home in larger numbers than in 2012, when President Barack Obama won his second term.
Only about 24 million voters under 29 voted this election year, according to exit polls. Their share of the voted dropped from 26 percent down to 15 percent this year in several battleground states. Steyer plowed money into youth outreach only to see young voters avoid the ballot box.
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won the overall youth vote, though she did it by a much smaller margin than Obama did four years ago.
In Florida, for instance, Clinton gathered 16 percent fewer millennial votes than Obama did in 2012. In Pennsylvania, a state that hasn’t gone Republican since 1988, she cobbled together 19 fewer points.
Trump did marginally better in the Keystone State than former Republican nominee Mitt Romney did, exit polls show. He didn’t do incredibly well with young voters, but Trump did well enough among those under 29 to carry the state by fewer than 70,000 votes.
Clinton’s poor showing in Pennsylvania portends bad news for Steyer’s pocket book.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Too bad the rich idiot didn’t waste billions.
Don’t worry Steyer will buy his way into the governor’s seat in California.
I thought the “Occupiers” didn’t like the one percent. They sure like this chump.
I’m sure He’ll get a bailout by the current president
I thought the “Occupiers” didn’t like the one percent. They sure like this chump.
The establishment media tells them who to like and not like.
How millennials decide how to vote:
“I was actually like excited to have a woman be running,” Ricker said. “I just wish it wasn’t her. I wish it was somebody a little bit more convincing, I think. She’s experienced, she’s smart, she knows what she’s frickin’ doing. But she just wasn’t charming. She didn’t have that same charm that Barack Obama has.”
1. 18-year-olds
2. 19-year-olds
3. 20-year-olds
and so on.
♬Someone didn't do his research. ♬
Exactly why Brexit lost even though the polls said it would win: younger voters didn’t turn out to vote.
Steyer doesn’t care aboutr a paltry few millions. He’s on the track of TRILLIONS. His goal is to ensconce himself at the nexus of a global carbon trading scheme, collecting fees by the billions and billions and billions. To get there, he needs to terrify people into believing the AGW myth and that a carbon tax and trading scheme is necessary for Earth’s survival.
He is in the 1% of the 1%ers. California loves their elitists.
Exactly. Someone should look into the Energy Foundation, through which Steyer funnels some of his largesse.
second time for this loser- he lost $85 million during the 2014 midterms backing losers:
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/election-results-tom-steyer-greens-112556
Imagine what they could accomplish in inner cities with that money.
According to Wikipedia, he also worked on the Mondale presidential campaign and donated to the presidential campaigns of Bill Bradley in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004.
Maybe have bought more votes for hildabeast?
I imagine this sum was only a fraction of the federal dough funneled to him by obama.
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