Losing the Kids

The Washington Examiner's Byron York reports on a Debate Watching party organized by the College Democrats at the University of Maryland, in College Park, near the District of Columbia. Some 300 were in attendance at a largish lecture hall. The kids didn't much love Hillary.

Before the debate, as students came in, the organizers gave each a clear plastic bead. The idea was that after the debate, there would be a jar for each candidate, and people would put their beads in the jar of the candidate they thought won the debate. Not everybody voted, but when it was all over, Bernie was the big winner, with 139 votes. O'Malley came in second with 67 votes. And Hillary? Just 17 votes. Out of a total of 233 cast, Clinton won just 17 votes. (Webb and Lincoln Chafee got five apiece.)

The MSM declared Clinton "winner" of the debate. Obviously, these young voters didn't get the memo.

Hillary's losing women, losing blue collar whites, losing the young. Who's left? Identity group voters - minorities, gays, and greens - between them these have too few votes to carry a candidacy in the absence of the others.