College students’ responses to a nationwide study in August reveal a polarized student body that’s unified in its skepticism of the electoral system, the candidates and the idea that the government works to improve their lives.
Nonetheless, most of them are still largely intent on casting a ballot this year.
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation sponsored the study as a follow-up to an earlier survey of 12,000 persistent nonvoters. That study showed that 18-to-24-year-old eligible voters, many of whom were registered or had voted before, were far less interested in voting for president even than chronic non-voters.
But that was before COVID-19 and the protests of systemic racism that followed the police killing of George Floyd.
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