I tweet a lot about the people who didn't vote in '16 and have already cast an early ballot in this election. But let me take a second to talk about the 4,193,175 early voters who are voting for the first time in their life.
It won't come as a surprise that a huge portion of these voters are young - almost 40% are under the age of 30. But voters of all ages have decided to vote for the first time ever in this election. Over half a million Americans over the age of 65 have cast their first ballot!
These first time voters are much more likely to be unmarried women, relative to past elections, and relative to any other group. They account for almost 36% of these new voters.
Asian voters have almost DOUBLED their share of the first time voter population, relative to 2016, a larger increase than any other group.
And finally, from a partisan perspective, in states with party registration, among first time voters registered Democrats account for almost double the number of first-time voting Republicans.
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