Huh? This makes no sense. No WAY over-65 voters are going for Obama. It’d be nice if the youth were shifting to McCain, but I question it.
I know a lady, getting close to 80. She's pro-life, her husband, now deceased, was a lifetime NRA member, staunch Southern Baptists and personally conservative as they come. She votes Democrat in every election. I don't know how she's voting this time, but Democrat before everything else has always been her mantra.
My mom is 76, and is voting for the first time in this election, and she voted for McCain. Actually, she voted FOR Palin, but McCain was also on the ticket. However, a lot of voters over 65 are living on SS, and they don't care about the future. They just want to make sure that the money keeps coming while they are alive. This is not a diss on them. Most of them were savers all their lives, bought one modest home, paid it off and lived fairly frugally.
However, Democrats will tell them that conservatives will cut off their SS, Medicare, etc., and they'll believe it and vote Democrat.
I don't know, my dad is in his 70s and is one of those democrats who (I think) mostly votes republican now since the dems went all lefty on him. But I mentioned I was wondering why the polls show that Obama, who's done nothing, is getting benefit from the financial crisis. And he said "Because he's damned smart! He went to Harvard Law!" I was taken aback a bit, since my dad was one of those who wanted a guy like McCain, he thinks Bush screwed things up and he thinks Bush is a conservative (!) so he wanted a moderate. But now he is leaning towards Obama. Man, that upset me.
I know of one, my brain-dead aunt in California who is still making excuses for Jimmy Carter. She's not in the best of health and I think Obama's universal health care plan is what is going to finish her off.
Some people don't realize that they are voting for their own deaths, material and spiritual. Pray for mercy for these folks.