Posted on 11/07/2011 9:37:33 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
Grandma and grandpa are not happy! They are sick of the mess the Occupy Wall Street type brats have made of our country.
This is the conclusion to be drawn from a new Pew Research poll of Americans 66 to 83 years of age on our current political situation.
Referring to this group as the “Silent Generation”, Pew reports that they came of age in time to vote for Truman Eisenhower and Kennedy, so they did not necessarily fall into the habit of reflexively voting for Roosevelt and the whole Democrat ticket. They had their flirtation with supporting Democrats such as Bill Clinton in the 1990s but didn’t like what it brought about. Since the 2000 election these “Silents” have been voting at increasingly higher rates for Republicans.
Remembering how America should be
When stacked up against other generations – Boomers Gen Xers and Milennials, Pew’s “Silent Generation” is markedly more “angry” at what has happened to the country they grew up in. Almost 1/3 of “Silents” blame government (in this case read Democrats) for their anger.
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good.
glad someone is waking up.
The Silent Generation (Artist, born 1925-1942) grew up as the suffocated children of war and depression. They came of age just too late to be war heroes and just too early to be youthful free spirits. Instead, this early-marrying Lonely Crowd became the risk-averse technicians and professionals—as well as the sensitive rock ‘n rollers and civil-rights advocates—of a post-crisis era in which conformity seemed to be a sure ticket to success. Midlife was an anxious “passage” for a generation torn between stolid elders and passionate juniors. Their surge to power coincided with fragmenting families, cultural diversity, institutional complexity, and prolific litigation. They are entering elderhood with unprecedented affluence, a “hip” style, and a reputation for indecision. (examples: AMERICAN: Colin Powell, Walter Mondale, Woody Allen, Martin Luther King, Jr., Sandra Day O’Connor, Elvis Presley; FOREIGN: Anne Frank, Mikhail Gorbachev)
I hope he’s right and I also hope this floosie that’s coming out of the sewer with Allred this afternoon against Cain doesn’t botch it with the “silent” ones.
A lot of the older voters like Romney for some damn reason.
This includes black people of Herman Cain’s generation. They voted for Obama because they wanted to live to see a black man in the White House. But their politics are more like Cain’s than Obama’s. I grew up with these people.
A Cain candidacy would peel off the older black voters (65 and older) and provide a real threat to Obama’s re-election because he wouldn’t get 90+% of the black vote again.
That won’t stop them from voting, the dead vote Democrat.
They do. I think it is the nice hair and the polished speaking skills which sort of remind them of JFK. And the waffling . . .
But served in Korea and even Vietnam anyway...
I call BS on the age parameters of this study.
People who are now 70 years of age,for example,were not old enough to vote for Eisenhower. A person who today is 66 was not old enough to vote for either Kennedy or Eisenhower.
The misinformation and false divisions today are mind boggling. What can be the purpose of this nonsense I wonder?
Yup. The dead vote early and often for the RATs.
Hey I haven't heard from you in like .... FOREVER. Check your freepmail I gotta big question for you.
(There were 3 or 4 states which had lower age limits than the others in the late 1960s but I don't know if that was already the case in 1960.)
Someone who is 66 now would have been 11 years old the last time Eisenhower ran for President.
Grandma and grandpa are not happy! They are sick of the mess the Occupy Wall Street type brats have made of our country.
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