Yep. My 60-something boomer parents who have voted Republican their entire lives plan on voting for Obama. Reason? They're afraid Republicans will cut off their free health care (that they didn't need when they were younger, employed and voting Republican).
People who believe that there's no way Obama can get re-elected might want to think of voters like my parents. There are millions more just like them.
Thank you! Finally. Someone else gets this.
This is a huge problem and is going to be a huge problem in 2012.
You might to educate them about Obamacare and how it takes $500 billion from Medicare over ten years and uses it to supply medical care for others, and about the unavoidable rationing of Obamacare, and how "death panels" will result in seniors receiving even less care.
“... might want to think of voters like my parents”.
I agree! I know several couples/people in their late 60’s up to their late 70’s. They are voting for Obama again for the same reasons as your folks. They also plan on donating money to his campaign. It is an “all about my needs” vs “the needs of the country”. They don’t give a hoot about unemployment (they are retired), gas prices (they don’t go too many places), food prices (it is just the two of them and they don’t need to feed growing kids) etc... My thought is the O administration will really start pushing the “fear factor” by false statements when it gets closer to the election. Just a thought.
We get the government we deserve.
Please don't disrespect an entire generation because of your parents behavior. They don't sound very smart to me. They must be some of those "lifelong Republicans" we see popping up as the source of anonymous anti-GOP quotes around election time.
Never did trust folks like that.