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2020-10-09 Home Front: Politix

With pandemic dominating U.S. election, older voters turning away from Trump

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 2020-10-09 07:58|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Chicago voters in the age range of 110-125? Yes, I can see that happening.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-10-09 08:04|| 2020-10-09 08:04|| Front Page Top

#2 It's 'Rooters', so the public demotivation attempt is strong.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-10-09 08:12|| 2020-10-09 08:12|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-10-09 08:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Bull.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-10-09 08:48|| 2020-10-09 08:48|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-10-09 09:20|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-10-09 10:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Coordinated demoralization, Vespasian.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-10-09 10:30|| 2020-10-09 10:30|| Front Page Top

#8 More bullshit.

Posted by 49 Pan 2020-10-09 10:52|| 2020-10-09 10:52|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-10-09 10:53|| Front Page Top

#10 "Biden Leading Trump By Triple Digits"

Honest!
WILTY?

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2020-10-09 11:16|| 2020-10-09 11:16|| Front Page Top

#11 More lies and gaslighting. 2016 all over again

Posted by Fester Trotsky2040 2020-10-09 11:17|| 2020-10-09 11:17|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-10-09 11:35|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-10-09 11:47|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-10-09 12:01|| Front Page Top

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

So they can still vote democratic...

Posted by Bobby 2020-10-09 12:15|| 2020-10-09 12:15|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-10-09 13:19|| Front Page Top

#17 In the immortal words of Col. Potter, "Horsepucky"!

Posted by Mercutio 2020-10-09 15:08|| 2020-10-09 15:08|| Front Page Top

#18 Reuters

Posted by Woodrow 2020-10-09 21:38|| 2020-10-09 21:38|| Front Page Top

#19 Latest narrative/political tack.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-10-09 21:56|| 2020-10-09 21:56|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-10-09 22:18|| Front Page Top

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