Seniors fled Democrats in midterms

[bobbyw24]

In an election marked by dramatic defections from the Democratic Party, older voters swung hardest, seemingly threatened by President Barack Obama’s mantra of change.

Voters over 65 favored Republicans last week by a 21-point margin after flirting with Democrats in the 2006 midterm elections and favoring John McCain by a relatively narrow 8-point margin in 2008.

Concerned by changes to Medicare and compelled by a Republican Party that promised a return to America’s glory days, seniors played a crucial — and often understated — role in races across the country. They were unswayed by ubiquitous Democratic warnings about Republican changes to Social Security. And they put a series of campaigns out of reach for Democrats.



“I’ve been saying since August 2009, that there was a tsunami — in this case a senior citizen tsunami — headed towards Capitol Hill,” said Jim Martin, chairman of the 60 Plus Association, a conservative campaign group targeted toward older voters. “That tsunami came ashore.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44802.html

[1836er]

Lovely. The "young folks" trend toward the Democrats in order to usher in a nightmarish statist future... while the "old folks" moved back to the Republicans in order to preserve the less nightmarish statist status quo.

While that makes the "old folks" closer (at present) to allies than the "young folks"... neither group seems much like a target audience for Jeffersonian republicanism in the longer run... not until everything collapses (anyway) and the "young folks" eventually realize that it was the "old folks" that - out of their own selfish materialistic greed - spent the bulk of the 20th century enslaving them (the "young folks") with their statist social/economic justice schemes.

[oyarde]

Lovely. The "young folks" trend toward the Democrats in order to usher in a nightmarish statist future... while the "old folks" moved back to the Republicans in order to preserve the less nightmarish statist status quo.

While that makes the "old folks" closer (at present) to allies than the "young folks"... neither group seems much like a target audience for Jeffersonian republicanism in the longer run... not until everything collapses (anyway) and the "young folks" eventually realize that it was the "old folks" that - out of their own selfish materialistic greed - spent the bulk of the 20th century enslaving them (the "young folks") with their statist social/economic justice schemes.

When you think about it , it should be the young who flee ( tax increases in the future , paid for by them ) and the old who cling ( medicare / medicaid that we cannot afford )