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662 points JacobHenner | 1 comments | 30 Apr 24 17:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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mustafa_pasi ◴[30 Apr 24 18:35 UTC] No.40214513[source]▶
Feels like they were keeping this card in their sleeves for when they needed a popularity boost.
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themagician ◴[30 Apr 24 21:51 UTC] No.40216835[source]▶
They absolutely were. Between 25% inflation, the student loan relief failure, two proxy wars and the current beating of college students across the country, the current administration would have been facing record low turnout in November.

I would be surprised if there is not some string attached to this that doesn't take place until after November. That's a good thing though, becuase it was seeming more and more like the current administration was sabotaging itself. The Democrats need the youth vote.

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1. astrange ◴[30 Apr 24 23:47 UTC] No.40217861[source]▶
Nobody cares about college protestors, even other young people. It's the second to least important issue in recent polls.

https://iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/47th-edition-spring-2024

Young people always have bad turnout anyway, so it doesn't matter if they find a new excuse to have it.

(Also they did do student loan reform via SAVE and have forgiven about 9% of loans IIRC. Probably shouldn't have though, it's inflationary, and as you can see from the above poll nobody even appreciates it.)