That’s the performance of young voters, who came out in historic numbers and overwhelmingly cast their ballots for the Democratic candidate for governor, Ralph Northam. “One of the biggest challenges facing the Republican Party in Virginia and nationwide is that the Republican Party has become toxic to a lot of young voters,” said Bob Holsworth, a longtime Virginia political scientist. Virginia’s results suggest that the rise of young voters is a serious problem for Republicans nationwide. That was a losing formula for wooing young voters, Ramadan said. There are a host of progressive and grass-roots groups aiming specifically to get a large turnout of young voters for Democratic candidates, and they were taking credit for the big showing.

Source: Washington Post November 24, 2017 22:18 UTC