Seniors prefer Romney but he is going to take away their benefits

[Rosa Luxemburg]

I think it's time to 'educate' some seniors about Romney and what he will take away from them

Obama Job Approval gallup.com
Jul 16-22, 2012 – Updates Tuesdays at 1 p.m. ET; reflects one-week change
National Adults 45%-1

Ages 18 to 29 53%+1
Ages 30 to 49 45%-1
Ages 50 to 64 44%-2
Ages 65+ 38%-1
White 37%-1
Nonwhite 68%-
Black 87%+2
Hispanic 58%+3
Democrat 81%-1
Independent 41%-1
Republican 10%

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Like my Dad.

[noel711]

2. As 'seniors' tell me...

They say they 'relate' to Romney,
they think he understands them,
that he's lived like they have, (yeah, right..)
shares their values...
they are sadly deluded.
The truth? He looks like their view of a president.
He looks 'presidential..'
i.e... he looks white.

Sad but true.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. they won't be saying that when Medicare goes bye byes

[doohnibor]

6. He DOES share their values

But after he takes his share, there's little left for the seniors to value. Buh-bye pension, it'll look great on Bain's bottom line.

[Turbineguy]

3. Voting Republican in general is like following Cheney's advice:

"Go fuck yourself!"

[The Magistrate]

4. Racism Among Whites Concentrates Towards The Higher Age Brackets, Ma'am

White people much over sixty-five most often grew up taking White supremacy and Negro inferiority pretty much for granted through their years of child-hood and adolescence.

"Romney loves America like a tick loves a dog."

[1StrongBlackMan]

26. Exactly! n/t

[Pauldg47]

7. Peace & love?

...why is it that the generation of baby boomers do not understand peace & love anymore?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. you are right, the same guys were protesting and burning flags in the 60s

got a little apathetic over the years or too comfy. Their comfy status will be duly changed if Romney is president.

[jehop61]

8. Generalizations are not always accurate.

There seems to be an anti-senior bias in some of these posts. Please don't lump all folks over 65 or so into the same category. I, and most of the people I'm friendly with, have been life long democrats. We've supported progressive causes for longer than many of you have lived, and we're tireless workers for campaigns. Hey DUers over a certain age, lets show the youngsters how many of us there are and how much we support their causes.

[JoePhilly]

10. I think the OP is not refering to the 38%.

[murielm99]

11. There are a large number of seniors on DU.

Every time someone does an age survey here, it shows. Also, we need to remember the large number of people who fought for unions, and are now retired. They were Democrats, too.

I get sick of these generalizations. I have parents in their eighties. They were DEMOCRATIC election judges for forty-nine years.

I worked with them, and on my own, for many Democratic candidates. The first one I can remember was Adlai Stevenson. I was eight years old.

Stop the age discrimination, people.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

12. No, no

we are talking about those seniors who are supporting Romney. Of course there are senior democratic voters.

[Pauldg47]

20. Your right Rosa...

...the ones that made it here to DU by the Grace of God I believe we're blessed. It was about fifteen years ago I became a Democrat and noticed deceit, lies and hate on Fox News.

[RebelOne]

16. I am a senior over 65

and have been a Democrat since I cast my first presidential vote for Kennedy.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

18. the republican leaners

[newfie11]

13. Not this senior

Or friends of ours. Unfortunately most of the folks here in nebraska are for Romney

[kimbutgar]

14. Rmoney is going to step into it and say what he really thinks about getting rid of medicare and

social security. The guy is gaffe prone and will say it out loud somewhere. I can see him talking to a Ayn Rand libertarian group and will say it, hopefully someone will get it on tape and I hope the OFA uses it in a commercial and runs it during Judge Judy and other heavy senior popular shows. Also this voter suppression thing might keep some of them from voting. Unintended consequences, there are old white people who lack ID's also

[ancianita]

15. It will likely happen during the debates.

And what Romney doesn't step in in the first debate, Biden will set up as an issue for later questioning in presidential debates two and three.

[progressivebydesign]

17. Weird.. because every time I see an Obama or Dem event, it's mostly seniors.

Every time I see an Obama sticker on a car, it's mostly likely a senior. In my Mom's retirement community, the LOVE Obama. I mean LOVE him like giddy school girls.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

19. but

the senior repub voters are out there.

[progressivebydesign]

21. Except for the fact that I don't want that bozo as President, I say the srs. who vote for him...

..deserve what they get. Sorry, but I've lost patience with stupid people, the elderly included. They read newspapers.. they should know better, but they're being greedy thinking that because he's filthy rich, that will somehow rub off on them. They will enjoy the privatized medicare...

[Rosa Luxemburg]

22. sad

Many seniors are ignorant of the problem that they will face when Mitt pulls the rug out from under their feet

[Proud Liberal Dem]

23. I guess that some of them think that what Romney plans on doing

won't affect THEM? Either that or they just feel more *comfortable* with a WASP self-professed "job creator"?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

24. Many of them will be too old to fight back

[Proud Liberal Dem]

25. Hopefully

none of them will have to even worry about it!

[brewens]

27. Attitude replacement therapy! You are not grandfathered into anything! If you

think you can vote for Robme and the teabaggers and sit back and watch everyone else's benefits get cut, you are in for a rude awakening. If they try and screw everyone else out of their Medicare benefits, the shit hits that fan and it will stay hit! We'll just end it all and cash everyone out. If you already used up what you paid in or more, you're done!

[polichick]

28. They think of him as the "status quo" candidate...

...and really want to retain what's familiar, even though most are voting against themselves.