Trump is losing older voters - BIGLY

[my2¢]

I have an admiration for the youngsters supporting Trump. I believe it is an early indication that they may do as well tolerating their know-it-all teenagers when that time comes for them.

 

[lennypartiv]

These old people will come to their senses before election day.

 

[DrLove]

Here's hoping. I can also tell you that our daughters (25 and 22) can't WAIT to vote, and I hope the young folks will do a better job of voting than they have in the past. This is about them, after all.

Precisely what I just told my daughter. She's never been all the political and told me she wasn't sure she was gonna vote. After a good lecture, that attitude ended about a week ago and she just requested an absentee ballot.

I'm 62, I've had a good life. Not so much concerned for myself, but I can't leave her a world as F'd up as it is under DJT. It would be irresponsible and selfish of me not to have reminded her of these things.

Agreed. This is the first election of my lifetime in which I'm voting for, and with, them.

I mailed mine yesterday and this is the first time I didn't vote for more repubs than dems, in fact I only voted for 1repub for county commissioner.

I vote for Republicans all the time for local positions. And especially for mostly apolitical jobs like county commissioner. I won't be voting for ANY Republicans on a state or national position that involves politics. They had their chance and they blew it grabbing at Donald's coattails instead of standing up for what is right.

 

[OldLady]

Here are a few polls. Biden leads them all. Trump won voters over 65 by 9 points in 2016. That (and much better than that) are Biden's leads now. They're tired of being scared and having their health disrespected by a foul-mouthed incompetent jerk who could care less whether they live or die.

Surveys since the two conventions, and the Trump campaign’s blitz to hang urban riots and violence around Democrats’ necks, largely show Biden’s strength among seniors remaining steadfast. A CNN national poll released in early September saw Biden leading among the 65-plus set by 17 points. In some recent state polls where Biden’s margins are tightening, meanwhile, seniors are no longer a bonus demographic contributing to a prospective Biden landslide—they’re the ones responsible for Biden holding onto his lead. An early September Quinnipiac poll of Florida, in which Biden led overall by 3 points, saw him leading among the 65-plus by 10; a Monmouth poll of Pennsylvania, in which Biden led overall by 4, showed him with an 11-point edge among seniors. The Biden campaign spent heavily in swing states over the summer trying to preserve this advantage.​

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/09/28/biden-older-voters-trump-advantage/

Need further evidence?

In 2016, older voters were one of Trump’s best demographics. According to exit polls, while Hillary Clinton won voters 45 and under by 14 percentage points, Trump won voters 45 and older—the larger age cohort—by 8 points. A separate Pew Research Center study of the electorate found that voters 65 and older were Trump’s strongest overall age demographic last time around. He won them by 9 points.​

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But while the country has spent four years bracing itself for a replay of November 2016, with eyes fixed on the same Pennsylvania-to-Wisconsin battlegrounds as before, the age-demographic landscape of the presidential contest has been quietly and dramatically rearranged. Although polling in recent months has shown Trump maintaining his advantage among the 50-to-64-year-old cohort, support among those over 65 has moved sharply toward Biden. In a national survey from Monmouth University released on Aug. 11, for example, which gave Biden a 10-point lead overall, Biden was leading registered voters over 65 by 17 points. That would represent a shift of 26 points among the oldest measured demographic from 2016. A Quinnipiac national poll from mid-July, meanwhile, showedBiden’s lead among the 65-plus at 14 points.​

Old People Elected Trump. Will They Make Him a One-Term President?

“I cannot—I cannot—vote for this man.”

slate.com

Wait til the ones come out after his crap about Covid yesterday. Oldsters aren't playing that one.