This slowness to judgment may partly reflect Mr Cameron's emphasis on reassuring rather than on
enthusing voters.
Her feminist version of Milibandism (her bid focuses on childcare and on tackling gender inequality and sexism) may sound sensible but it is hardly the stuff that
enthuses voters.
Not exact matches
And the likelihood of the SNP propping up a Labour government
enthused Conservatives to vote and persuaded many UKIP inclined
voters to support the Conservatives.
In New York City, Democrat Bill de Blasio handily won a second term, but there wasn't much to suggest that
voters were too
enthused about the idea.
There is a fear within the official remain campaign that their cause will be too closely associated with David Cameron to
enthuse Labour
voters.
But Labour outperformed even that achievement as a unique alliance of
enthused younger
voters and previous non-
voters combined with older austerity - hit, anti-establishment Ukippers to deliver a 10 - point rise in Labour's vote compared with two years ago, to 40 %.
Strikingly, May appears to be impressing far more leave
voters than Corbyn is
enthusing remainers — 40 % of leavers back May over Brexit, while only 26 % of remainers think Corbyn is doing well on the issue.
It's possible Corbyn did
enthuse a lot of the «core» Labour
voters who might not have bothered for Miliband.
That's not to say that young
voters were not still important in explaining the election result — age was still an important divide on how people voted, young people did still heavily vote for Labour so it is still fair to say Labour managed to
enthuse young people more, it's just that the level of turnout among under 25s does not appear to have risen; Labour just took a greater share of support among younger
voters.