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To the editor:
If college students voted in large numbers, the U.S. vote in the United Nations against calling for a ceasefire in the Israeli-Hamas war might well insure that President Joe Biden would lose the presidential election in 2024. However, he is lucky that while they talk, they complain, they protest in large numbers, about half of young voters (18-29) don’t vote.
After a record youth turnout for young voters in the 2020 presidential election, fewer young voters plan to vote in 2024 (less than 50 percent) according to a new poll of young people by Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
That figure might dip further if the deaths of Palestinians and destruction of Gaza (worse than the destruction of German cities in World War II) continues into 2024. Most young people won’t vote for Trump, but they probably won’t vote for Biden either.
Most of the young people in this age group (18-29) believe that the death toll of women, children and innocent civilians in Gaza, the destruction of most of the hospitals, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promise to erase Hamas regardless of the cost in life for the Palestinians, think this is something very akin to genocide.
However, it would surprise voting sources if there is a more than 50 percent turnout next November. Biden must not know this or he would have supported the call for a ceasefire.
Michael J. Gorman
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