Column: Young people in Chicago aren’t voting. – Chicago Sun-Times

"...(O)nly 3% of ballots cast on Feb. 28 came from the youngest voters...The latest polls put the April 4 race between Johnson, 47, and Vallas, 69, close enough to conclude that any small factor can determine who wins the race."
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Poor Taxpayer
3 years ago

Sure they are, they are voting with their feet in large numbers.

$200,000 Pension Couples
3 years ago

Santa Claus Sanders is one of the few octegenarians who has a message that resonates with youth: increased financial burden on taxpayers which yields free stuff for them.

Also, the concept of personal responsibility when it comes to repaying a loan is “unfair”
is very popular because the trillions of dollars that would be forgiven would fall like manna from heaven. Old Bern obviously never took a course in economics.

Bern will have an effect on the 13% who are undecided while Pocahontas’ endorsement of Brandon was essentially meaningless.

Pensions Paid First
3 years ago

Also, the concept of personal responsibility when it comes to repaying a loan is “unfair”

is very popular because the trillions of dollars that would be forgiven would fall like manna from heaven.”

Sounds like your line of thinking when not wanting to pay tier 1 pensioners what was promised. “It’s unfair that pensioners are getting these pensions and I’m not, waaaaahhhhhh”.

Lack of personal responsibility indeed.

Where's Mine ???
3 years ago

ctu/brandon are hopen the kids will turn out for burnnie fest

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