TPM: Are Republicans About To Commit Medicare Suicide?

[Alcibiades]

14. The real base of the GOP

is:

1. rich

2. white

3. old

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/11/03/forget-the-tea-party-republicans-won-because-of-older-voters.html

Folks blather a lot about the 2010 elections, but it was the high water mark for a group I call the "George Wallace voters," older conservatives. Like Wallace, they hate big government, and yet, much like other older voters, they love Medicare and Social Security.

Most of these folks have not voted Democratic since Reagan. To the extent that this crowd is demobilized by this, the stronger our winning coalition will be. 2010 was the last hurrah of the old white conservative, who are all going the way of Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond, despite all the hated gubberment money that is being spent on their health care.