[Lnc-business] Reason Poll on Millnenials

[Scott L.]

For those of you who think that the Libertarian Party needs to lean to the
left in its outreach if we want to attract new donors from the Millennial
generation:

 

 

Appendix 2 from the recent Reason report on Millennials (1): 

 

 

 

  Of Millennials who self-identified as libertarian and explained why they
were libertarian:

 

             "Economic/Small Govt. Conservative only    22%

 

             Social Liberal only
2%"

 

 

In the abridged version of that survey that they mailed out to Reason
donors, they combined some categories, but still:

 

    Of self-identified libertarians,  the reason they used to justify that
label:

 

                "Economic Issues                    67%

 

                 Social/Tolerance Issues     48%"

 

 

Either way, these results strongly suggest that if the Libertarian Party
wants to attract more 18 to 29 year olds who already identify as
libertarian, it would be more fruitful to advertise our positions on
economic issues rather than our positions on social issues.  If you have a
goal other than getting the most bang for the buck with our outreach, then
you might come to another conclusion.

 

       Scott Lieberman     Region 4 Alternate, LNC 

 

 

 

1.   http://reason.com/assets/db/2014-millennials-report.pdf

 

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