#19 - The Coveted Voting Bloc: Older Americans
Original Webcast Date: October 26, 2004, 3 p.m. EST
In the 2000 Presidential election, voter turnout was significantly higher among older voters making them the pivotal voting age bloc. According to the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate 63.2 percent of 55 to 64 year-olds and 64 percent of those 65 and older went to the polls. Among younger voters age 18 to 24, only 28.7 percent voted strengthening the case for politicians to court voters over age 55. Issues like Social Security funding and the hard-fought Medicare prescription drug benefit, which was passed in December 2003, will be central to older Americans as politicians seek their votes in the 2004 Presidential election. Robert Binstock, Professor of Aging, Health and Society at Case Western Reserve University will discuss the importance of the "senior vote," trends in older Americans' voting patterns and what the trends may mean to the 2004 election. Curtis Gans, Director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, will give an overall portrait of the electorate and demographic trends that may be important to consider this election season.
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