肯塔基州参议员选战10月26日聚焦年轻选民 巴尔与布克各出招

今年11月，肯塔基州的年轻选民将第一次在有生之年看到该州资深联邦参议员席位易手。自1984年首次当选的参议员米奇·麦康奈尔（Mitch McConnell）将在任期结束时退休。角逐这一席位的是共和党众议员安迪·巴尔（Andy Barr）和民主党候选人查尔斯·布克（Charles Booker），两人都把争取年轻选民作为竞选的重要一环。

肯塔基州选举委员会的数据显示，2025年初，全州17至24岁的登记选民超过29万人，约占全州350万选民的8%；其中34%登记为民主党人，48%为共和党人，17%属于其他党派。布克的竞选团队已造访七所大学，他在9月15日肯塔基大学的一场活动上说：「这场竞选对我来说必须成为社区的见证，必须成为年轻领袖的见证，见证肯塔基各地那些感到被忽视、被遗忘的声音。」曾担任巴尔竞选团队实习生的路易斯维尔大学19岁学生布雷登·科利特（Braiden Collett）说，巴尔团队主打生活成本危机，用减税、把更多钱留在年轻人口袋里等主张争取年轻选民，他在肯塔基州东部挨家挨户敲门时，与许多直接就业、从事技工行业的年轻人深入交谈过这些问题。

分析认为，年轻选民的人数可能不足以单独左右选举结果，但肯塔基州的选举过去曾以极小差距决出胜负：州长安迪·贝希尔（Andy Beshear）2019年以不到一个百分点的优势获胜，麦康奈尔1984年赢得这个席位时的差距同样微小。皮尤研究中心的一项调查显示，40岁以下的成年人中有89%认为，如今的年轻人买房比父辈那代人更难；数据显示，2019年至2024年间房价上涨了30%，而工资仅上涨9%。巴尔的竞选团队没有回应就年轻选民议题的采访请求。

Kentucky Senate Race Focuses on Young Voters as Barr and Booker Make Their Appeals

This November, Kentucky's youngest voters will see the state's senior U.S. Senate seat change hands for the first time in their lifetimes. Sen. Mitch McConnell, first elected in 1984, will retire at the end of his term. Republican Congressman Andy Barr and Democratic candidate Charles Booker are competing for the seat, and both campaigns are working to energize young voters.

Data from the Kentucky State Board of Elections shows there were more than 290,000 registered voters between the ages of 17 and 24 at the beginning of 2025 — about 8% of the state's roughly 3.5 million voters. Of those young voters, 34% are registered Democrats, 48% Republicans and 17% with other parties. Booker's campaign has visited seven universities; at a September 15 event at the University of Kentucky he said, "This campaign to me has to be a testament to community, has to be testament of young leaders, to voices across Kentucky who feel ignored and forgotten about." Braiden Collett, a 19-year-old University of Louisville student and former Barr campaign intern, said Barr's focus on the cost-of-living crisis appeals to young voters, recalling long door-knocking conversations in Eastern Kentucky with young people who went straight into trades work about lower taxes and keeping more money in their pockets.

Young voters likely are not numerous enough on their own to sway the outcome, but Kentucky elections have been decided by slim margins before: Gov. Andy Beshear won in 2019 by less than a percent, and McConnell won his seat in 1984 under a similarly narrow margin. A Pew Research Center survey found that 89% of adults younger than 40 say homeownership is harder for young people than it was for their parents, with home costs rising 30% from 2019 to 2024 while wages rose 9%. Barr's campaign did not respond to a request for an interview on the topic of Kentucky's youngest voters.

来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）

图片来源：肯塔基州议会大厦南立面。图片：Tedd Liggett，CC BY-SA 4.0，取自维基共享资源。

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