Publication Summary
HeadCount commissioned HIT Strategies to conduct a post-election poll with the goal of understanding what made young registered voters decide whether or not they would participate in the election this year. Our survey showed that young registered voters across the U.S. are not a monolith, with gaps in perspective, priorities, and ideology by gender, race, generation, and media source. Young registered voters need to be convinced of their vote’s power to make change on the issues that matter most to them, or we risk losing their participation in the electoral process. Young registered voters in this survey and throughout the report are defined as registered voters under the age of 35.