in a recent article in the Washington Post discussed Obama and McCain and the appeal each one might have to certain voting blocks, particularly baby boomers.
First, I have to say I don’t like the headline. Notice how mine was “balanced”? it didn’t favor Obama OR McCain. The Post headline managed to be “about” Obama, and McCain references were merely added to give a sense of balance. Bias showing here?
The long list of comments was very enlightening. Some readers were firmly for Obama, some for McCain. And there seemed to be a cross-section of voters in various age groups. I couldn’t get a sense that any one age group had a strong preference for one or the other candidate. Some boomers support McCain; others support Obama.
Here is just one example:
I’m a 60 year old Boomer. I was talking with a 59 year old friend last week. She said “Remember when we were young in college? We were liberals, way left. Now we’re so much more conservative we would appall our former selves.” We’ve lived through the Cold War, VietNam, the end of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union. We have homes, businesses, children, grandchildren. We want peace for the rest of our lives and for future generations. We have a sense of our physical and financial mortality. We want a leader with experience and strength of character.
Are boomers more likely to vote for someone older, like McCain? Or younger (born in 1961), like Obama? What do you think?
Tags: baby boomer voters, McCain, Obama
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