Glenn Beck Has The Religion Study Sadz

“You define yourself as a Christian and you’re going to be defined by society as narrow-minded, judgmental, hateful. Believing marriage is between a man and a woman [is] used as ammunition to say you hate gays. Teaching intelligent design is literally likened to child abuse now, mocked as ‘anti-science.’ Virginity is mocked. Being pro-life is being spun as a war on women. So growing up today as a millennial — that is damn near impossible. Who would intentionally put themselves in a crowd that society has deemed anti-gay, anti-women, anti-science?” - Glenn Beck, responding to yesterday's study by Pew Research.

77% Of Millennials Can't Name Senator

A Fusion poll of 1000 millennials issued yesterday shows that 55% prefer Hillary Clinton over Mitt Romney, who had not yet withdrawn at the time of the poll. The Clinton result is hardly surprising, more interesting is that 77% of these 18-34 year-olds cannot name either of their US senators.

The finding provides fodder for the suggestion that millennials are relatively uninformed political citizens. But Fusion’s survey also revealed that more than nine in 10 of the 18- to 34-year-olds plan to vote in the 2016 presidential election, so there’s some inclination they want to learn more. Some interesting findings in the demographic breakdowns: more men (25 percent) than women (20 percent) were able to correctly name at least one of their senators. However, they were also more likely to guess and take a 50-50 shot at getting it right — women were more likely than men to say they “don’t know” rather than give an incorrect response. Meanwhile, certain demographic groups within the survey earned a particularly low grade. Just 18 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds, 16 percent of Latinos, and 10 percent of African-Americans could correctly identify one of their senators. However, whites were significantly more likely to guess than to say they didn’t know.

Hit the link for a breakdown of many more poll questions.

RNC Launches Millennial Outreach

Alex Pareene rips into it at Salon:

It’s easy to laugh at Republican millennial outreach efforts, because all millennial outreach efforts by institutions run by rich old people are invariably hilarious and insulting, but at least this one has a guy who does look like a normal young (college educated, white, well-off) urbanite. It’s not one of these guys. Scott Greenberg is saying strange, vague things that sound like they were written by someone trying to mask his actual agenda, but he is not openly condescending to young people (well, besides that stripey shirt) by referencing youth culture or awkwardly employing slang (or, god forbid, rapping). He’s a Republican because he believes that helping the rich get richer will somehow make gas prices fall, and while I do not expect that message to resonate with many other people in Greenburg’s demographic, it is at least a less hostile pitch than “I am a Republican because I think white men are a persecuted class” or “I am a Republican because the other guys are nerds and fags.”

Another ad with this guy is here.