So what is happening to make him popular right now, I ask the one of the university’s professors of political science?

It is fascinating, I see it all the time in the class room,” Kendra Stewart says. “College students really being attracted to a candidate who is tailoring his message to them. Telling them they don’t want to be left holding the bag for the money their parents and grand parents are spending. ”

“Right now in the United States there’s a lot of disenchantment with government. There always is, but we are seeing high levels of it, higher than almost anytime since Watergate. 

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