Gallup: US Seniors have realigned with the Republican Party

[Heimdal]

US seniors are disproportionately white and don't like the blacks. What a surprise... The sooner they croak, the better for the country.

Now you can be banned, I hope.

[Heimdal]

The question is how long they are going to stay with the Republicans. Most of the successful Republican coalitions the last elections (both Midterms and Presidential) were built around huge margins of white voters without college degrees. These voters pulled the lever for Nixon, Reagan, Bush the Elder and his son. The GOP never managed to seal the deal with them, and so they bolted to Clinton and Carter. A lot of them voted for Obama as well.

If the Republicans start to get serious about entitlement reform, they will have to do something about Medicare as well. Such a reform might alienate a lot of their voters in the +65 group. That might give the Democrats some leeway there.