Poll: Majority of millennials can't name a senator from their home state

More than three-fourths of millennials cannot name one of their home state’s senators, according to a new poll.

In Fusion’s “Massive Millennial Poll” released on Tuesday, 77 percent of Americans between 18 and 34 could not name one senator in his or her home state. Twenty-three percent answered the question correctly.


Men were more likely than women to name their senator, with 25 percent of men and 20 percent of women answering the open-ended question correctly. Women were more likely to answer that they did not know rather than name the wrong senator (an answer of “I don’t know” was counted as an incorrect response).

The number is even lower among younger millennials. Of those ages 18 to 24, only 18 percent knew the name of their senator.

Only 16 percent of Latinos and 10 percent of African-Americans were able to correctly identify one senator from his or her home state.

Fusion’s poll was taken between Jan. 6 and Jan. 11 among 1,000 people ages 18-34 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

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