Commentary: We’re old, we’re progressive and we vote
by Heather Booth and Bill McKibben, Los Angeles Times
Sep 28, 2022
3 minutes
The GOP has been flailing a little in recent weeks, as an election once expected to be a typical midterm blowout has tightened considerably. If the GOP expects that older voters will bail them out as in elections past, our advice is, think again.
The folk wisdom, of course, is that older voters are more conservative — an idea with at least some statistical support. There is an entire media ecosystem geared to rattling the fears of us older people. At Fox News, where the median viewer age is generally
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