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To: Ancesthntr

Why be rude? Of course I have been.

I know the older voters vote more conservative. But I speak of nursing home residents who I suspect are either not voting or are having their voting done for them. I was specific about that.


21 posted on 06/26/2020 10:18:53 PM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen)
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To: Persevero

I wasn’t trying to be rude, just a bit sarcastic.

While people tend to be more conservative as they get older, the people who are now 75+ tend not to be quite so conservative because either they themselves, or their parents and older siblings, experienced FDR and WW2. Many in that generation essentially worship FDR (and, yes, many then and now hate/hated him with a passion - but they are a minority). So, from my POV and experience, most older voters are reliable Dems. Of course, I don’t wish them to die so that they can no longer vote - instead, I’d rather they either change their minds or just plain forget to vote - but their habits are their habits.

FYI, the largest percentage of people in nursing homes are in independent living, and most of them are able to drive or otherwise get out and about. They have active minds, even if they are a bit more forgetful than they were 20 or 50 years ago, and are quite capable of making their own decisions. I don’t think that they’re willing to have anyone do their voting for them - mailing a sealed ballot is one thing, but checking the boxes and signing it they tend to do themselves.


22 posted on 06/27/2020 1:17:58 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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