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BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
1. This is encouraging. Trump and his crew are responsible for a great deal of preventable death.
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 05:01 PM
Apr 2020

Maybe some of his base is starting to get that about him.

FloridaBlues

(4,007 posts)
2. Maybe older voters trust Biden more because he's well known to them.
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 06:02 PM
Apr 2020

My older brother in law long time republican said he will be voting for him.

ProfessorGAC

(64,990 posts)
4. Yeah, 3 Years In The Rearview...
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 06:06 PM
Apr 2020

...those Obama/Biden years are looking pretty good about now.
"I was never really against Obama are..."

0rganism

(23,937 posts)
8. or maybe because he's not demanding they die for the stock market?
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 06:16 PM
Apr 2020

dunno, that might be a turn off for some of them

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
3. That's significant!
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 06:05 PM
Apr 2020

Based on past elections, I usually put old folks in the Republican win column automatically.

malaise

(268,899 posts)
5. You don't kill granny and get away with it
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 06:06 PM
Apr 2020

People aren't that stupid. Go Seniors - run his ass out of town!

emmaverybo

(8,144 posts)
6. We value our lives even when the larger society does not. We also understand that aging need not
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 06:11 PM
Apr 2020

be an infirmity. And many of us feel we do know Joe.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,402 posts)
9. Guess those seniors
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 06:18 PM
Apr 2020

don't want to sacrifice themselves to save the economy and the 'murican way of life for their grandchildren (which is only a bad thing if you're Dan Patrick)

Indykatie

(3,695 posts)
10. Who Knew That Saying Old People Should Be Willing to Die To Save The Economy Would Backfire?
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 08:49 PM
Apr 2020

If Trump has lost the old folks that's the race and it'll probably be a landslide.

P.S. Shame on us old folks for voting for the piece of sh*t by 7 points. Seniors and uneducated White men are responsible for Trump squatting in the WH.

Indykatie

(3,695 posts)
11. Seniors Can't Continue to Sleep
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 09:13 PM
Apr 2020

Us old folks better wake the f**k up. Do seniors really think Trump gives a sh*t about their best interests?

Regarding Seniors: "They’ve remained supportive of him for much of his presidency. And they’re counting on the president to protect them at a particularly precarious moment".

McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
12. Because old people know that their Trump loving relatives
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 09:16 PM
Apr 2020

are HOPING that they will catch COVID and die so they can steal all their stuff

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