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voting by mail
Apr. 30, 2021
Making Voting More Convenient May Help Democrats After All Census data shows that Democratic-leaning younger voters benefited from more flexible voting arrangements in 2020.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 22, 2020
Trump’s Closing Message to Seniors: I Don’t Care If You Die “It affects elderly people,” Trump said of COVID. “It affects virtually nobody.”
By Eric Levitz
vision 2020
Sept. 17, 2020
Polls: Biden Maintains Electoral College Lead, But It’s Fragile Polls show a slightly eroding Biden lead nationally, but he’s in great shape unless the margin falls below 3 percent.
By Ed Kilgore
No One Should Be Surprised That America Abandoned the Elderly to Die 132,000 Americans have lost their lives to the pandemic. Almost 40 percent of them lived in nursing homes or assisted-living communities.
By Sarah Jones
vision 2020
June 26, 2020
Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Force Texas to Let Non-Seniors Vote by Mail Texas Democrats had a novel argument based on the 26th amendment’s ban on age discrimination in voting. But the Supreme Court’s not ready to go there.
By Ed Kilgore
The Coronavirus May Be Turning Generational Voting Patterns Upside Down Biden’s looking good with his fellow seniors, but Trump’s doing better than expected with younger voters, and the pandemic may help explain it.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Apr. 21, 2020
Trump’s Coronavirus Response May Be Turning Off Older Voters Joe Biden’s strong standing among seniors could be politically fatal to Republicans. Trump’s focus on reopening the economy is making them nervous.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Apr. 13, 2020
Old Folks Like Biden, and That Could Really Matter in November Democrats last won over-65 voters in a presidential election in 1996. Biden gives Democrats a shot at building a coalition of seniors and millennials.
By Ed Kilgore
Here Are the Red States That Limit Voting by Mail to Trump–Approved Groups It’s becoming the GOP party line that the procedure should be limited to seniors and military folk. Some places already follow that rule.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Mar. 10, 2020
How Bernie Lost Michigan Sanders fell short of his 2016 performance in this crucial state in no small part by losing the white working-class voters he won against Clinton.
By Ed Kilgore
casting call
Feb. 25, 2020
Alert Your Memaws and Pop-Pops: ABC Is Casting a Bachelor -Style Show for Seniors You’re never too old to find love, but you gotta be at least 65 to find love on this show.
By Halle Kiefer
Democrats Should Make 2020 Into a Referendum on ‘More Socialism for Old People’ The GOP needs seniors’ votes but is ideologically incapable of meeting their needs.
By Eric Levitz
Will Old Folks Stick With Joe Biden? There’s a dynamic that could undercut his exceptional popularity among seniors, across racial and gender lines.
By Ed Kilgore
the republican party
Mar. 28, 2019
The Republican Party Has an Older Voters Problem As our retirement crisis deepens, the GOP will have a harder time balancing its opposition to social spending and reliance on elderly voters.
By Eric Levitz
2018 midterms
Dec. 14, 2018
Even Old Folks Trended Democratic in 2018 The Democratic future depends on young and minority voters and college-educated women. But many seniors vote, and more of them are voting Democratic.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Nov. 7, 2018
2014’s Electorate Showed Up to the 2018 Election. But It Voted Differently. Exit polls from the pro-Republican 2014 and pro-Democratic 2018 elections show similarly shaped electorates, but a change in public opinion.
By Ed Kilgore
Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Die Off Sometimes older voters aren’t just naturally more conservative. It’s just that wealthier and whiter people tend to live longer and healthier lives.
By Ed Kilgore
California Property Tax Initiative Could Be Another Boon to GOP Turnout A Realtor-backed ballot initiative expanding property tax loopholes for homeowners over 55 could drive turnout among Republican-leaning voters.
By Ed Kilgore
America’s Views on Abortion Are Undergoing a Generational Shift For the first time in many years, it looks like a new generation of Americans is significantly more inclined toward pro-choice views.
By Ed Kilgore
Is That a Democratic Tsunami Taking Shape for 2018? More and more signs are cropping up suggesting a historic beatdown of the GOP in the next midterm election.
By Ed Kilgore
science of us
Nov. 16, 2016
By Drake Baer
A Big Part of Trump’s Movement Will Soon Literally Die Off While Trump’s base includes plenty of working-class voters, a large number are senior citizens well into retirement.
By Ed Kilgore
health carnage
Apr. 23, 2010
Health-Care Reform Will Increase Health-Care Costs Only by $311 billion, though. We’re serious, it’s not that much.
By Dan Amira
health carnage
Sept. 2, 2009
By Chris Rovzar
For Seniors, Lunchtime Trumps Health Care Representative Weiner discovers that chicken marsala is the real priority.
By Dan Amira
neighborhood watch
Dec. 22, 2008
Ruthless Bubbes in Dreidel Smackdown Cutie-pies from four senior homes compete today in the Dreidel Championship.
By Tim Murphy