A young generation loves Obama, cool to Clinton, Trump

A new generation of American voters has few if any profound political memories of any president other than Barack Obama, and that appears to be having an effect on how they perceive their choices for his successor.

A new GenForward survey suggests millennials as a whole disapprove overwhelmingly of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and interviews with college students in the battleground state of North Carolina found many first-time voters see the 70-year-old real estate mogul as offensive, unprepared and even racist.
     
About 60 percent of those voters age 18 to 30, meanwhile, approve of the job Obama is doing.
     
Yet those sentiments don't necessarily benefit Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, 68, raising questions about whether the former secretary of state can generate the same level of support among an age bracket that helped Obama win two terms.
     
Here's what some millennial voters have to say about Clinton, Trump, Obama and the state of the nation.
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Duke University graduate student Jennifer Lenart, 23, is considering third-party choices, arguing that another Clinton administration would be dominated, fairly or not, by controversy and gridlock:
     
"I do like her, but because of what I keep hearing, it's too much, too overwhelming. I'd rather start from a clean slate so we don't have to deal with this anymore."
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Joey Abbate, a 21-year-old varsity wrestler at Duke, describes himself as a Republican unhappy with the state of the nation. The California native will vote for Trump, but says he isn't confident in his choice:
     
"There needs to be some change, and I don't really see that coming with Clinton. ... I know there would be...