Clark and Dean supporters. What's your age?

[dobak]

I am just curious.

I am getting the feeling that alot of Clark supporters are older and fear another Dukakis/Mondale/McGovern landslide if Dean is elected (I am not saying that I think that will happen)

I also get the feeling that alot of Dean supporters are younger and for many of them, this is their first foray into active poltics (I am not saying this is good or bad)

Anyway.....


(on edit - subject heading changed from "Clark/Dean" to "Clark and Dean" to better reflect that this poll is for Clark and Dean supporters. Not just supporters of a Clark/Dean ticket.)

[dobak]

1. kick

[dobak]

16. kick

[Kosmos Mariner]

2. kick

:kick:

[ClintonTyree]

3. Looks as if.............

your supposition about Clark is correct, but the Dean numbers blow your theory out of the water. By the way, I'm 53 and a Dean supporter.

[incapsulated]

4. Wait a minute...

If your age ends in a zero you can choose from two different age brackets!

Should be 30-39, 40-49, 50-59 etc.

[Toronto Ron]

7. 30-40, 40-50 (etc.) is okay...

if you take it literally to the day, i.e. you hit the upper group on your birthday. :think:

[DinkyDem]

8. yes, this poll is unscientific

It comes down to whether on not you identify with people older or younger than you if you are at age "x0".

I suspect that most people would choose the younger group because most of us don't come to grips with it until later (if ever.) ;)

[incapsulated]

9. I chose the elder group...

because I would rather look foward than backward. It's depressing! I used to be younger than this, eh.

[burning bush]

5. Im 40 and for Dean

But...I don't know if I belong to the 30-40, range, or the 40-50 range. Either way, by your call, I'm ancient for a Dean supporter.

This is all so confusing for someone of my advanced age ;)

[Piperay]

6. I will admit that I DO

remember how McGovern got a landslide dumped on him and I DO fear the same thing happening with Dean. Dean is not that big a liberal but that is the brush the bushie's are tarring him with because they want to trounce him the same way McGovern was. :-(

[bearfartinthewoods]

10. you are asking too much

this isn't going to get honestly addressed. we will never know the answer to the unasked question until it's too late.

[ozone_man]

11. Looks like Dean gets over 50 and under 24.

I know I'm reading to much into it, but it looks like a generation thing. Over 50, you were watching Vietnam on TV, or fighting Vietnam war, or protesting the war, etc.

These folks had kids and taught them to be the same antiwar liberals. They see the Iraq war and it triggers memories implanted by their parents, and they see it on TV and this time, it is very clear who the people responsible for starting this war were, including senators that voted for IWR. Many of them are going to vote for Dean too. :-)

[texasmom]

12. First election was Mondale...

I missed voting for Carter in 1980 by two months. It was terribly disappointing to not be able to cast my vote. A senior in high school, I tearfully wrote Carter a letter on election night. In 1984 I was probably the only one in the country who thought Mondale was going to pull it out on election night. I was so excited about Ferraro. Then, with Dukakis in 1988 I wasn't too excited, but he was so much smarter than Bush, I thought, that surely the voters would choose him. He blew Bush out of the water in the debates. Again...hope...and I liked Lloyd Bentson. Disappointment.
Never have I felt the stakes were as high as this time. Maybe it's because I'm on the upside of 40, and maybe it's because of all I've seen and observed since the campaign of 2000 and selection. It is a frightening time in this country. We not only have to win the presidency, we have to pull other representatives and senators in with the president.
So...I'm a 40, almost 41, year-old solidly in the Clark camp. I've never been as excited about and inspired by a candidate as I am this man.

[UrbScotty]

13. Welcome to DU! (no text)

[texasmom]

14. Thanks!! (n/t)

[littlejoe]

15. Does it really matter,

so long as we are informed? For the record though, I am 47, and been through a lot of political battles.