In Sunday night's Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton was asked why her opponent, Bernie Sanders, is fairing far better among young voters than she is now. She said she'd simply try to win them over. But a new Harvard poll finds his support among millennials is much stronger than hers. In this week's Political Words with Friends, Glamour's resident Democrat Krystal Marie Ball and Republican S.E. Cupp debate why so many millennial women, specifically, are "feeling the Bern."

SEC: I'm fascinated by the love affair young voters have for a guy who was born a couple months before Pearl Harbor. I know age is just a number, but you wouldn't think a 74-year-old would resonate so genuinely with young people.

KB: It really is fascinating! USA Today has a new poll out in which young Democratic women prefer Sanders to Clinton by 19 points. I think a big part of the reason many young women feel comfortable voting for a white man over Clinton is their changing view of progress for women. Young women have been taught their whole lives that women can be anything they want to be. So even though we have never had a woman president, it doesn't feel like a particularly exciting accomplishment to get one woman into one position of power. Young women who possess that attitude can consider all their options without having any gender traitor guilt.

SEC: I'm pleased you think identity politics has, at least for some young women, become tedious and uninteresting. I've long held that millennials' relationship status with Clinton is...complicated. On the plus side for her, younger millennials didn't grow up when we did, mired in all the Clinton-era scandal—I literally learned what oral sex was from Bill's, er, transgressions. So they don't carry around all the decades-old baggage that we do and our parents do. But on the minus for her, as you indicated, they also don't carry around the massive and long-awaited expectations that she would become the first woman president, like many of her boomer supporters do. As you say, young women in particular aren't as obsessed with that objective. So when she pins her campaign on that very notion, it falls flat.