Reply #55: You'd be surprised how many people under 50 think that is okay

[loyalsister]

According to demographic research that a candidate I know used:
Unfortunately, the educated, professional Gen xers are republicans with comfortable retirement plans and insurance care very little about those things. They are my self-centered peers who opposed any sort of health reform. There are also too many fundamentalists vulnerable to Christian right in my generation.
The generation coming up behind us are anti- fundie and less worried about SS\Medicare.
On the other hand the independent baby boomers are wise to the GOP.

It's possible, that those demographics are regionally specific, but they may have been calculated into that bluff.
It was risky. It made me sit up and take notice, and I'm still watching to see where it leads. As far as reelection, I think he may benefit with independents by staying above the fray with opposition coming from all sides.