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GreatGazoo

(3,937 posts)
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 03:21 PM Mar 2016

NYTimes: Clinton strong with those older, "less liberal" and wanting First Female President

Mrs. Wolfson, who was volunteering for Mrs. Clinton, said she realized Senator Bernie Sanders had excited young people, but all of her friends and neighbors in her retirement community here were rooting for the former first lady and secretary of state.
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Mrs. Clinton can thank voters like Mrs. Wolfson not just for her double-digit victory last Tuesday night in Florida, but also for propelling her in every state she has won this primary season. Indeed, while Mr. Sanders’s message of political revolution has made him the overwhelming choice of the Snapchat generation, Mrs. Clinton is doing just fine counting on voters who came of age with Polaroids.
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Jon Bauman, a Clinton supporter and a founder of Senior Votes Count, an advocacy group, said older Democrats valued experience and knew better than to dismiss Mrs. Clinton because of her ties to Wall Street, her vote for the Iraq war or other issues that Mr. Sanders has faulted her for.
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A spokesman for Mr. Sanders, Michael Briggs, pointed to polls showing Mr. Sanders performing better than Mrs. Clinton in a matchup against the leading Republican candidate, Donald J. Trump. He noted Mr. Sanders’s significant strength among young voters, who he said represented the country’s future. He said that he wished he knew why Mr. Sanders, 74, was trailing among older voters. “It’s certainly not because of his record,” Mr. Briggs said, noting Mr. Sanders’s work in the Senate on expanding Social Security and containing drug costs. “No one has been more at the forefront of issues impacting seniors.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/21/us/politics/hillary-clinton-older-voters.html
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