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This age group also has some unique political preferences from older generations. Sen.

Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida, who have been on the rise in recent weeks, both netted 7 percent support, with Sen.

The full poll results can be found here.

As a group, millennial voters still lean slightly Democratic with 56 percent saying they would prefer to see a Democrat elected in.

“It’s clearly kind of a wedge issue – something that illustrates significant differences in the way that young Republicans and young Democrats view America”, said Della Volpe.

As for the American Dream, that once-sacrosanct ethos is sacrosanct no more: Some 49% of Millennials polled chose “dead” when asked if it the dream was alive or dead for them. Fifty-six percent of millennials said they preferred that Democrats win the the presidency in 2016, compared to the 36 percent that favored the Republican Party. Among Republicans, the number was higher, at 24%, which was close to the 22% of Hispanics who said they were either already serving or would consider serving. Forty-nine percent said it is alive, while 48 percent said the American Dream is dead. However respondents with more education are more likely to say the American dream is still alive: 58 percent of college graduates said so versus just 42 percent of those who are not in college or have never enrolled.

Sanders led Clinton by a particularly wide margin among those now in college, 53 percent to 19 percent. “For Sanders to have success on a national basis, he needs to be leading Clinton by a much larger number among young people than he is now”, he said.

Those 18 to 29 most value integrity, level-headedness, and authenticity-not experience-in a future president, the poll shows. But only 16% of respondents said they would be willing to serve in the conflict. That breaks down to less than half of young voters (43 percent) who want a wall built at the border, and 43 percent who don’t. Twenty-four percent said the socialist label made them more likely to vote for Sanders, and just 9 percent said it made them less likely.

Public opinion surveys conducted around that same time also indicated mixed opinions about whether American military action in Iraq and Afghanistan had been effective: in a 2012 Chicago Council of Global Affairs survey, 70 percent of Republicans supported taking an active role in global affairs, while only 60 percent of Democrats and 55 percent of Independents did.

“That doesn’t necessarily mean that Democrats are becoming more popular, but what we see overall right now is that Republicans are becoming less popular”, said Dustin Chiang ’19, whose work on the project focused on the Republican primary race. It was conducted online with the Government and Academic Research team of GfK.