Originally published at: Elderly voters favor Democrats for first time since 2000 - Boing Boing
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More bad news for the Republicans. Keep it coming!
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Okay, boomer!
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If Trump and the GOP are losing the old people, they are in big trouble.
Let’s hope this will end up as a blue wave election, with Republicans crushed on all levels!
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Suspicious of his Social Security plans. Won’t do anything to help Medicare. He passes the Wellness dementia test that we have all taken and thinks he is a genius. Try’s to hide his baldness with that comb over. Yea no old folk, like me, can trust him.
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Kamala, what is best in life?
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their donors!
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Support changed by 2% for Republicans & 3% for Democrats in a poll with a 3% margin of error?
Yawn.
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People over 65 are much more likely to regularly see a person with dementia than the rest of us are. They realize that Trump sounds an awful lot like their diagnosed friends and relatives.
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The difference is 4% with a 3% margin of error. That is outside the MoE, which is at least significant. Is it definitive? 80+ days out? Hell no. But it is evidence of mounting momentum. The best way to build momentum is to celebrate that which already is and encourage more!
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This is nice news and all. Just hoping it translates to electoral college votes.
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I wonder how much of this shift was made possible by covid disproportionately killing off older conservative voters. Are they “losing the elderly” because they, well, lost so many elderly supporters?
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In the linked article. It says 22% never heard of Tim Walz, and 12% never heard of JD Vance.
I think that tells us that the undecided voters, specifically the ones who don’t really follow politics, are the ones who will nudge the election to one side or another.
Election 2024 aka YOLO 2024? 
This older Dem got vaxxed and boosted every time it was suggested. I’ll be getting boosted again next month before a trip to Iceland to celebrate my 65th trip around the sun.
I’d been wondering the same thing. It seems as though 45 was intent on exposing his most loyal fans to a virus that would kill them back in 2020, and has doubled down on it with his elder base now four years older. It makes no sense. 
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well, that base got significantly smaller due to… 
(eta: and no doubt, this effects the polls. )
he craves attention, and covid competed for that attention. if he were to have focused on dealing with it scientifically, researchers and doctors would have been front and center. instead, he got to hold regular news conferences, and shovel #$#$ that would leave everyone talking.
by being the arbiter of what was good and bad, and by being the stumbling block for every single decision – however terrible the result ( at least half a million excess deaths due to bad policy ) – it kept him front and center every single day.
his goals were satisfied. and his current behavior is more of the same.
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While a lot of people will risk death rather than risk embarrassment, self important cowards like TFG will happily risk killing others than risk the embarrassment of admitting he was wrong.
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It definitely seems to have happened in the UK - the elderly were the only reliable demographic of Conservative supporters, then the Tories underfunded the health service and botched the covid response. Just normal, age-related deaths were depleting their voter ranks, but covid just accelerated it, and they lost massively in the last election - and there wasn’t the same kind of right-wing politicization of covid that happened (and continues to happen) in the US.
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That sounds like a really high percentage of people who have heard of the VP candidates to me. I think that indicates a higher than usual level of political engagement.
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I suppose it’s all relative. If 22% of English speakers have never heard of the word “the”, would that still be great news because a simple majority of people have ?
It makes sense that undecided voters would be so ignorant of the election that they might not even know who the VP candidates sre. Anyone paying attention made their choice a long time ago.
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