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1 Skip Intro  Jul 10, 2013 11:56:10am

The GOP has a real philosophical problem with old people. One the one hand, they make up most of the base, and the party is dead without them.

On the other, the Young Gun Teabaggers hate having to spend money on Medicare and other government services to keep these takers of wealth alive.

It’s going to interesting to see which side prevails.

2 aagcobb  Jul 10, 2013 12:16:59pm

re: #1 Skip Intro

The GOP has a real philosophical problem with old people. One the one hand, they make up most of the base, and the party is dead without them.

On the other, the Young Gun Teabaggers hate having to spend money on Medicare and other government services to keep these takers of wealth alive.

It’s going to interesting to see which side prevails.

They solved that problem by promising to protect the benefits of current geezers. This report is a demographic nightmare for the GOP. It did win whites in the last election, but only because of overwhelming support from white evangelical and born-again Christians. Romney and Obama split the rest of the white vote. Does anyone imagine Hillary will do worse with non-evangelical whites than Obama did? So the fact that young whites are so unreligious is a disaster for the GOP, which has practically become the political arm of white evangelicals and is not at all welcoming to the irreligious.

3 Heywood Jabloeme  Jul 10, 2013 1:25:24pm

Older white people are less “lilberal” when it comes to racism as well.


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