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Obama tops among young, but less so than in 2008

By Callum Borchers

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 24, 2012

President Obama has opened a commanding lead over Mitt Romney among young voters, according to a national poll released Tuesday, restaking his claim to a demographic that supported him overwhelmingly in 2008. A Harvard Institute of Politics survey of 18- to 29-year-olds showed Obama leading the presumptive Republican nominee 43 percent to 26 percent. The poll results, though encouraging for the president, indicate he is not as popular among young voters as he was four years ago.

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