Prominent grandmother and "next-in-line" Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton is probably enjoying the media's nonstop coverage of moody billionaire Donald Trump, the presumptive first runner-up in the Iowa caucus. That said, recent polling doesn't look all that great for Hillary, 68, who appears to be struggling to appeal to younger voters, especially in a head-to-head match up against the much younger Marco Rubio. The Washington Post reports:
The NBC/WSJ poll’s toplines are that Rubio holds a 48-45 lead over Clinton among adults nationally, effectively a tie. By contrast, Clinton leads Donald Trump by 50-40, and she leads Ted Cruz by 48-45 (also effectively a tie). But note this data from the crosstabs, sent over by the good folks at NBC:
— Clinton and Rubio are tied among voters who are 18-34 years old, 45-45.
— Clinton leads Trump among these voters, 54-33.
— Clinton leads Cruz among these voters, 49-40.
By comparison, President Obama won the youth vote over Mitt Romney by a huge margin, 67 percent to 30 percent. Hillary's underperformance among young voters was also reflected in a recent Quinnipiac poll, which showed her leading Rubio among the 18-34 year old age group by just seven points, 45 percent to 38 percent. A majority of young voters (57 percent) do not think Hillary Clinton is "honest and trustworthy," which is pretty embarrassing. She is going to need the support of younger voters if she wants to defeat the Republican nominee in 2016, and has been actively trying to win over young female voters. How's that going? Not so well, as it turns out.