Anxious About the Virus, Older Voters Grow More Wary of Trump

[RandySF]

WASHINGTON — The coronavirus crisis and the administration’s halting response to it have cost President Trump support from one of his most crucial constituencies: America’s seniors.

For years, Republicans and Mr. Trump have relied on older Americans, the country’s largest voting bloc, to offset a huge advantage Democrats enjoy with younger voters. In critical states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida, all of which have large older populations, Mr. Trump’s advantage with older voters has been essential to his political success; in 2016, he won voters over the age of 65 by seven percentage points, according to national exit poll data.

But seniors are also the most vulnerable to the global pandemic, and the campaign’s internal polls, people familiar with the numbers said, show Mr. Trump’s support among voters over the age of 65 softening to a concerning degree, as he pushes to reopen the country’s economy at the expense of stopping a virus that puts them at the greatest risk.

A recent Morning Consult poll found that Mr. Trump’s approval rating on the handling of the coronavirus was lower with seniors than with any other group other than young voters. And Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the presumptive Democratic nominee, in recent polls held a 10-point advantage over Mr. Trump among voters who are 65 and older. A poll commissioned by the campaign showed a similar double-digit gap.



https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/us/politics/trump-older-voters-2020.html

[struggle4progress]

1. "He gets tests: we don't. He pretends we don't need masks but makes his staff wear them"

[Lock him up.]

2. Talk about voting against their own self-interests...

... (their own life)... a lesson the idiots should have learned before.

[Lock him up.]

3. The same "yipees" who voted for Raygun...

... and the bushes...
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Because... Faux propaganda said so...

[Hortensis]

6. Note that ONLY 7% more voted for Trump than Democrats.

Trump "won" seniors by SEVEN POINTS. And that's considered a critically important and dependable voting bloc in this era of wins and losses by tiny fractions.

[Warpy]

4. High time, the fools can't win without the older than god crowd

and I have never understood how so many of them exited their leftist 20s and became such fools as they got older.

I might be older than dirt, myself, but I have never mellowed.

[Hortensis]

7. :) Me neither. But in the adolescent 20s, conforming

is more important than one's basic nature for most.

An extreme case, but I once knew a woman with a pathological need to stay very young and without responsibility who, at 35, was still insisting she was liberal, presumably because that was how she still saw young people around the turn of the century. A very hard-right con in our office came to me as a liberal to confirm his notion that she wasn't, and I laughed that he saw me as knowing something about that at least and said, "Oh, God no!"

Insight into anything wasn't exactly her strong point, and guessing she went not just RW but authoritarian RW, looking for a strongman to make her decisions, some time ago.

[Jim__]

5. Hard to believe that they're just waking up to the fact that Trump doesn't give a shit about them.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Who Wrote This?

Pretty shoddy.
Right in the snip the author goes from "softening to a concerning degree" to Biden having a 10 point lead.
+7 going to -10 is softening? More like getting pounded!