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 To voters under 30, Bernie Sanders is one of them. 
Forget  Hillary Clinton. “She’s a corporate sellout,” said Emmy Ham, a senior  international affairs and anthropology major at the University of New  Hampshire. 
And forget the notion that young women are eager to see  Clinton president because of her gender. “There will be other  opportunities for me to vote for a woman for president,” Ham said. 
Sanders  has surged among young people as few candidates have since the U.S.  senator from Vermont was a college student in the turbulent 1960s.  Sanders, 74, topped Clinton 84-14 among Democrats 29 and younger in  Iowa’s Monday caucus. He’s got a 3-1 lead among those aged 18-29 in the  latest NBCNews/WSJ-Marist New Hampshire poll. 
Sanders has two important traits common to younger voters: He’s new and he won’t compromise his ideals. 
Young  voters see Clinton as part of another era. She’s been in the national  spotlight 24 years, before most young people were born. “She’s been  there their entire life, and she’s yesterday’s news,” said Andrew Smith,  director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. “But no one  knew who Bernie Sanders was until recently.”  |