What does Super Tuesday Mean for Young People?

While we await the inevitable results coming from South Carolina today (an inevitable victory for Joe Biden), the real critical races that will ultimately determine the start of the end of this Democratic Primary will happen on Tuesday.

Super Tuesday this year will be the day when Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Democrats Abroad will all cast their votes for this contentious Democratic Primary. Most notably, California has been moved up, and as a result, a substantial plurality of delegates are up for grabs. This time around, Super Tuesday will all but certainly decide the victor of this primary.

But, again and again, I constantly am in just absolute shock as to the inherent lack of discussion about voter turnout when it comes to young people in particular. The discussion of turning out voters of color, or turning out moderates and conservative Democrats almost always is brought up when it comes to covering this election, yet the demographic of people that much of modern politics will affect is almost never brought up.

Perhaps the most obvious factor or reason in discussing this demographic is because it’s effectively gone to one candidate: Bernie Sanders. Amongst all the candidates up for election in…