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frazzled

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1. We know for a fact ...

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Thu Apr 3, 2014, 10:40 AM

Apr 2014

That young people are woefully delinquent in voting in midterm or local and state elections. And that older Americans vote in larger numbers.

That said, I think the portrayal of older voters as cranky, "get off my lawn" types who watch Fox News is a bit unfair. There are a lot of seniors who are reliably liberal, and not even cranky.

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We know for a fact ... frazzled Apr 2014 #1

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