Why Don't Young Women Vote For Clinton?

Over at The New Republic, Elizabeth Cline wants to know why young women aren't voting for Sen. Clinton. Her answer seems to be twofold. First, non-college young people, who tend to favor Clinton, are not turning out in numbers as high as their college peers. Second, and more importantly, young women in college are living in a meritorcratic system with little to no gender bias, effectively neutering gender as a deciding factor in their politics:

Obama's support gets even stronger as voters get younger. Among college students, it's even stronger. As far back as April 2007, polls showed Obama with a 17-point lead over Clinton among college Democrats. During that same period, Obama's lead over Clinton was only three percentage points among 18-24 year-olds not enrolled in a four-year school. Fortunately for Obama, this non-college group has abysmal voter turnout. According to CIRCLE, in 2004, the voter turnout for college students and college graduates under 25 was 59 percent; it was 34 percent for non-graduates. In other words, those young voters are mostly college students or recent grads.

Anyone who has graduated in the last decade has anecdotes of guys who come to class late or hungover, while their female classmates seemed to have all their work done. College has become one corner of American life where hardworking females are consistently and fairly rewarded, and they are succeeding there, to a much greater degree than their male counterparts. It's possible, maybe even likely, to graduate college with little sense and zero experience of institutionalized gender discrimination--with almost complete freedom from the type of covert, daily setbacks that drive blacks to the polls for Obama and older women to vote for Clinton.

I don't know if it is true or not, but it is certainly an interesting theory.