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Home Front: Politix
With pandemic dominating U.S. election, older voters turning away from Trump
2020-10-09
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many older Americans have turned away from President Donald Trump this year as the coronavirus ravages the country, eroding an important Republican support base that helped propel him into the White House in 2016, Reuters/Ipsos polling data shows.

Trump and his Democratic opponent Joe Biden now split American voters aged 55 years and older almost evenly: 47% say they are voting for Biden on Nov. 3 while 46% back Trump, according to Reuters/Ipsos national surveys in September and October.

That could be an alarming sign for the president, who trails Biden with 25 days to go before the election.

Republicans have relied on the support of older Americans in national elections for years, routinely benefiting from a demographic that consistently shows up in force on Election Day.

Trump won the 55-plus age group by 13 percentage points in 2016, according to exit polls. Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, achieved the same margin.

Reuters/Ipsos state polls also show Biden outperforming Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, among older voters in a handful of battleground states, where seniors make up an outsized proportion of the electorate.
Posted by:Besoeker

#20  "Many Americans," or, NEGATRENDS

Big news today: Many Americans
In Vegas just blew their inheritance
Or fell off a ladder
Or yelled "Black lives matter!"
Or dallied with lovely librarians.
Posted by: Flelet Spawn of the Antelope1170   2020-10-09 22:18  

#19  Latest narrative/political tack.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-10-09 21:56  

#18  Reuters
Posted by: Woodrow   2020-10-09 21:38  

#17  In the immortal words of Col. Potter, "Horsepucky"!
Posted by: Mercutio   2020-10-09 15:08  

#16  Polls are a leftist tool that they use to demoralize the right. It's all fake news.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-10-09 13:19  

#15  That's ridiculous! They're all dead!

So they can still vote democratic...
Posted by: Bobby   2020-10-09 12:15  

#14  
#12 I just hope that people thinking of voting for Plugs remember the Commie / Proggie mantra:

"One man, One vote, Once"

If they're dumb enough to vote for Harriden, then they have no conception of that adage or its meaning.
Posted by: charger   2020-10-09 12:01  

#13  Today's journalism is promotion of events they manufacture that you are supposed to accept. Tomorrow something else because stories like these disappear quickly. Truth has staying power. Lies disappear quickly.
Posted by: Dale   2020-10-09 11:47  

#12  I just hope that people thinking of voting for Plugs remember the Commie / Proggie mantra:

"One man, One vote, Once"
Posted by: AlanC   2020-10-09 11:35  

#11  More lies and gaslighting. 2016 all over again
Posted by: Fester Trotsky2040   2020-10-09 11:17  

#10  "Biden Leading Trump By Triple Digits"

Honest!
WILTY?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2020-10-09 11:16  

#9  #5 Trump/Pense needs to make commercials showing who the virus has hit NY far harder than anywhere else. Add video of Cuomo saying Trump gave him everything they needed. Then some bits about the nursing home disaster and Cuomo trying to blame Trump for the Virus when heat came on


Yep.


I made the same point in a more general way in one of the Pence debate threads from yesterday.

Never assume that "everybody just knows" what the Dems have been doing.

Make the point about they were doing, repeat it and reinforce it.
Posted by: charger   2020-10-09 10:53  

#8  More bullshit.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2020-10-09 10:52  

#7  Coordinated demoralization, Vespasian.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-10-09 10:30  

#6  It's 'Rooters', so the public demotivation attempt is strong.
Posted by Mullah Richard

Problem is now that Reuters has published the story all the other anti-Trump outlets will run it as the truth.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735   2020-10-09 10:08  

#5  Trump/Pense needs to make commercials showing who the virus has hit NY far harder than anywhere else. Add video of Cuomo saying Trump gave him everything they needed. Then some bits about the nursing home disaster and Cuomo trying to blame Trump for the Virus when heat came on.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-10-09 09:20  

#4  Bull.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2020-10-09 08:48  

#3  Where was Trump in their "Polls" at this time before his election win?

This is selective reporting at it's MSM "finest".
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-10-09 08:27  

#2  It's 'Rooters', so the public demotivation attempt is strong.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-10-09 08:12  

#1  Chicago voters in the age range of 110-125? Yes, I can see that happening.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-10-09 08:04  

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