05-17-2017, 11:03 PM
Quote:More young Republicans left their party over the past year than young Democrats did, according to a Wednesday report by Pew Research Center. The poll shows 23 percent of young Republicans and Republican-leaning voters under the age of 30 switched to the Democrat party over the past year. During the same period, only nine percent of Democrats under 30 switched to the Republican Party. The study also shows 21 percent of Republicans who left after December of 2015 returned to the party the following March; nine percent of Democrats who abandoned their party returned.Poll: More young Republicans left GOP during 2016 election than Democrats | TheHill