Voters over 70 are backing Harris over Trump, 51 to 48 percent, Emerson College poll finds

A new poll shows some baby boomers and members of the Silent Generation are switching allegiances from former President Donald Trump to Vice President Kamala Harris.

The Emerson College poll released Thursday  shows voters over 70 backing Harris over Trump 51 to 48 percent. That’s a small but positive shift for Harris, as last month, 50 percent of the group supported Trump while 48 percent backed President Joe Biden, who dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris last month.

The group includes some baby boomers, who were born between 1946 and 1964, and the Silent Generation, born between 1925 and 1945.

  • Verdant Banana
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    3 months ago

    if anybody reads what the DNC voted on for their platform lowering aging people’s cost of healthcare was a big one and the rest of their platform was mostly for seniors to benefit off of it

    more gerontocracy horseshit so no surprise people switched

    we need a party for the younger people at this point that would fight for living wages and universal healthcare for all not just Medicare expansion and lowering prescription drug costs lowering that will mostly just help seniors

    https://democrats.org/news/dnc-releases-2024-party-platform-draft-outlining-historic-record-and-bold-agenda-for-president-biden-and-vice-president-harris-to-finish-the-job/

    • @31337@sh.itjust.works
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      I mean helping seniors is important too. 1/3 have income below 200% of the poverty level, and the average SSI is $600/month.

      But yeah, universal healthcare is a no-brainer.

    • @Atrichum@lemmy.world
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      This comment is proof a certain segment of liberals just can’t be happy.

      “just Medicare expansion and lowering prescription drug costs” Just?! Oh you mean just two issues which voters have been demanding for over 2 decades? Just what democrats have tried to accomplish forever but Republicans have blocked?

      Political parties are capable of having and achieving multiple policy goals at once. Jesus christ.

      • Verdant Banana
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        -153 months ago

        yes a certain segment of people want living wages and healthcare for all and a plan to take care of this planet we live on and to stop killing other people on this earth

        not liberal ideas fucking common sense

        • @Atrichum@lemmy.world
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          Me: hey, some sorely needed common sense reforms got passed. Rural hospitals in a majority of states have the desperately needed federal funds to stay open and people are less likely to die because they cant afford their life saving medicines, great right?

          You: fucking idiot, not every problem on the planet has been solved! How dare you celebrate solving just one problem we’ve been fighting for a generation to get fixed!

          • Verdant Banana
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            -193 months ago

            have you seen how these policies play out on the ground or do you wake up and drive to work and the grocery and home maybe a park

            shit is not better because Democrats got voted in and we should demand more out of our leaders

            work a job that has me in multiple states and the issues the politicians from both sides are claiming to be worked on are in piss poor shape

            you want to talk about rural hospitals needing funds to stay open then lets talk about the policies and actions that got us here

            both parties for decades have sold out the citizens to be underpaid, sick, undereducated, malnourished on bullshit food, and just basically left to suffer so their stocks and payouts can increase

            Democrats just have a better costume

            • @Atrichum@lemmy.world
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              133 months ago

              You sound more like an agitator trying to sow resentment than someone who actually believes in liberal values.

              Shitting on anything except a magical savior that waves a wand and makes the world anew is a delusion, not politics.

              • @assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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                23 months ago

                You sound more like an agitator trying to sow resentment than someone who actually believes in liberal values.

                There is a group that masquerades as “leftist” but they don’t actually believe in any leftist ideals. The only thing they care about is “Democrats bad”, and they want to see Democrats fail. Everything else is secondary. They’d rather see Trump win so they can say “I told you so” instead of seeing things get even a little bit better.

            • @CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world
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              shit is not better because Democrats got voted in and we should demand more out of our leaders

              You call a Republican majority in the House “Democrats voted in”? Do you call a 50-50 split Senate with Manchin to be “Democrats voted in”? How about we give them enough people in Congress to accomplish big things before throwing up our hands in exasperation that they didn’t accomplish enough. They need enough of a majority in the House and Senate that one or two rogue Democrats trying to make a name for themselves can’t derail anything and everything they want.

              • Verdant Banana
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                -73 months ago

                Democrats have had majority before and never upped the minimum wage sufficiently, citizens never got universal healthcare, workers never got better rights, never codified Roe v. Wade, and all the other things Democrats say they are about to the public

                • @MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
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                  Okay, what happened the last time the Democratic Party had a filibuster-proof majority? Did they sit on their hands and do nothing, or did they pass the largest healthcare overhaul ever with 4 months of control?

                  Which party blocked the votes on all those other policies you love to point to? Oh, it’s that party you seem to have no interest in removing? How weird.

            • Crunk
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              13 months ago

              Get off of that Hasan Piker juice.

    • @assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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      we need a party for the younger people at this point that would fight for living wages and universal healthcare for all

      Bruh, younger people couldn’t even show up to vote for a Democrat primary candidate who was fighting for those things. If they can’t do that, they’re sure as hell not going to be able to make a party lmao. And I say that as someone who was one of the younger people in 2020 and voted for Sanders in the primary. Young people needed to get their shit together, and based on 2022, it looks like they finally are getting there.

      Oh, and lowering prescription drug prices helps a lot of people who aren’t geriatric, you fucking ableist. It would’ve helped me save a thousand or so over the last few years, at least. And that’s not accounting for my surprise medical emergency early this year. If you aren’t going to get off your high horse, then get out.

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        I think maybe your writeup here would look a lot better without the animosity. I’m not sayin being uncivil is always wrong, but I’m not seeing you reflecting it, you’re making it. here, let’s take a look at my edit:

        Younger people couldn’t even show up to vote for a Democrat primary candidate who was fighting for those things. If they can’t do that, they’re sure as hell not going to be able to make a party. And I say that as someone who was one of the younger people in 2020 and voted for Sanders in the primary. Young people needed to get their shit together, and based on 2022, it looks like they finally are getting there.

        And, lowering prescription drug prices helps a lot of people who aren’t geriatric. It would’ve helped me save a thousand or so over the last few years, at least. And that’s not accounting for my surprise medical emergency early this year.

        Nothing of value was lost. No point was missed. It is now more persuasive. I assume that’s why you made it right?

        Again, I’m not claiming i don’t like dunkin on assholes as much as the next guy. I critically agree with your point that reduced drug costs op was shitting on help everyone, and that ops complaint sounds like whining on its face. Im saying maybe you got hotter than you needed to here.