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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Will millennials vote in the midterms?

    Democrats are banking on millennials and Generation Z to turn out in big numbers to help them take back the House or Senate. But a new poll says only one in three potential young voters definitely plans to cast their ballot on election day.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Oct 11, 2018 • 1 min read

    Democrats are banking on millennials and Generation Z to turn out in big numbers to help them take back the House or Senate. But a new poll says only one in three potential young voters definitely plans to cast their ballot on election day. That’s practically unchanged from the last midterm election four years ago. The poll is from The Atlantic and the Public Religion Research Institute, a nonpartisan polling group.

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    The full episode

    1 of 4
    The ‘Hollywood Godfather’ you’ve never heard of
    1. 0:00Will millennials vote in the midterms?You’re reading this
    2. 9:23Despite being under indictment, Duncan Hunter leads in the polls
    3. 18:48How some migrant kids could get adopted without their parents knowing
    4. 29:26How the man who created the Hollywood Reporter used it to wield absolute power
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