The Myths Of Millennial Voters With Cathy Cohen

Big Brains - A podcast by University of Chicago Podcast Network - Thursdays

Every election year, poll after poll tries to predict where millennials stand politically. As we head into 2020, we'd like to replay this episode with Prof. Cathy Cohen who says some of our assumptions about young people are all wrong. Cohen’s innovative survey, GenForward, is a first of its kind. By oversampling young people of color, they investigate differences in responses by race and ethnicity. The data she’s collected gives us a unique window into what millennials might do in the 2020 electio