What millennial voters care about in 2020

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🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Eugene Scott describes the impact young voters may have on the presidential election. Drew Harwell on the psychological toll of Web-connected cameras. And Dan Keating explains whether the stop-and-frisk program is actually what lowered the crime rate in New York City, as former mayor Michael Bloomberg claims.

What do young South Carolina Democrats want most in the upcoming election? Big change.

Ring, Nest and other Internet-connected cameras have normalized surveillance and created a nation of voyeurs.

An analysis of crime data in New York City suggests that the stop-and-frisk program championed by former mayor Mike Bloomberg wasn’t a major component in dropping crime rates.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post,
0:04.8	Hey, it's Ross Helderman from the Post-Kolley.
0:07.9	How are you?
0:08.9	Hey there, it's Simon and the Post.
0:10.9	Hey, it's Dave Farron from the Post.
0:12.9	Have you got a seat?
0:13.9	This is Post Reports.
0:14.9	I'm Nicole Ellis.
0:18.9	It's Thursday, February 27.
0:23.7	Today, what young voters in South Carolina want?
0:27.0	How smart doorbells have changed our neighborhoods?
0:30.0	And looking back, it's stopping first.
0:36.0	I am a millennial and have been fascinated by the diversity of the millennial experience
0:43.9	for probably 10 years.
0:47.2	According to Pew Research, millennials range from people born in 1981 to 1996.
0:54.8	And those are incredibly broad experiences, depending on where you're from and your
1:00.8	various identities and how you view the world.
1:06.0	I'm Eugene Scott.
1:07.0	I'm a political reporter for The Fix.
1:09.4	The Harvard Institute of Politics for years has pulled, hosted, focused groups, done
1:17.1	other type of research projects, focused on young voters.
1:21.5	And I've been following them for years.
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