In 2012, President Obama captured a historic majority of millennials, propelling him to a second term in the White House. In fact, if voting had started at age 30, Mitt Romney would be our president today. This means that our generation had the power to reverse the decision that the rest of the electorate made.

Hillary Clinton has been unable to repeat that success starting with the Democratic primaries. In some states that Clinton eventually won, her opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders, walked away with more than 80 percent of voters under the age of 30. These problems have continued in the general election as her lead over Republican presidential rival Donald Trump fell from 24 points in late August to just 5 points this month in Quinnipiac surveys.