Re: The 2008 Presidential Elections - Chapter 3
Dems are forgetting one thing......DEMographics. Remember the old saw about if your not a liberal at 20, you have no heart...if your not a conservative at 40, you have no brains. Well, the demographics of the baby boomers has been shifting to the "old" side for quite a while. And there's about 70 million of them. Thats about 1/4 of the voters in America. If Obama ignores the old folks, he's doomed. He needs to spend more time in the rest homes and less time on college campuses.
Plus, those old folks are having one identity crisis after another ie drivers license, vision, mobility, et al. They look at John McCain and see a role model of health and vigor for a 70 sumfin year old.
Last but not least, Dems suffer mightily from their fringe element. If Dems would spend some energy distancing themselves from their fringe the way Reps have tried to separate from the Christian Right, then Dems would have a much more desirable position from the point of view of centrists on the fence.
Dems are forgetting one thing......DEMographics. Remember the old saw about if your not a liberal at 20, you have no heart...if your not a conservative at 40, you have no brains. Well, the demographics of the baby boomers has been shifting to the "old" side for quite a while. And there's about 70 million of them. Thats about 1/4 of the voters in America. If Obama ignores the old folks, he's doomed. He needs to spend more time in the rest homes and less time on college campuses.
Plus, those old folks are having one identity crisis after another ie drivers license, vision, mobility, et al. They look at John McCain and see a role model of health and vigor for a 70 sumfin year old.
Last but not least, Dems suffer mightily from their fringe element. If Dems would spend some energy distancing themselves from their fringe the way Reps have tried to separate from the Christian Right, then Dems would have a much more desirable position from the point of view of centrists on the fence.
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