As shellackings go, the 2010 election was as comprehensive as it gets. Democrats lost among women, men, high-school graduates, college graduates, Catholics, Protestants, and so on. But there was one demographic group whose repudiation was especially influential: senior citizens. In the 2006 midterm election, seniors split their vote evenly between House Democrats and Republicans. This time, they went for Republicans by a twenty-one-point margin. The impact of that swing was magnified by the fact that seniors, always pretty reliable midterm voters, were particularly fired up: nearly a quarter...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/11/16/seniors_entitlements_amp_the_midterms_245873.html
Dennis Hastert Dennis Kucinich Dianne Feinstein Dick Cheney Dick Lugar
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