Millennial Journalist on MSNBC: Obama Made Voting ‘an Act of Love’

TUR: "Why doesn’t our generation vote in large numbers?"
ALTER: "It's a great question. I think that it’s because — first of all, millennial turnout did double in the 2018 midterms from 2014, so it’s certainly going in the right direction. But one reason is that Barack Obama was such a transformative figure for people and he was, for many people our age, their first president that they got behind. And he made voting into an act of love. So I don’t think that millennials think of voting as their duty, they think of it as something they only do for something they really care about and really believe in. And that makes it really hard for somebody like a Michael Bloomberg or a Joe Biden to attract millennial voters, because they just don’t believe in them that much and they're not going to show up for something that they don't believe in."