Are Democrats becoming the party of old white people?

[The Tradition]

Democrats lean heavily on young voters to win elections, but their leading candidates for the White House are 68-year-old Hillary Clinton and 74-year-old Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

The two other Democrats who were often implored to enter the race are Vice President Biden, 72, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), 66.

Democrats are led on Capitol Hill by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) — who are both 75.

\Pelosi’s top two lieutenants are 76-year-old Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (Md.) and 75-year-old Rep. James Clyburn (S.C.). In comparison, Reid’s expected successor as Democratic leader in the next Congress is a relative spring chicken: Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.) is 64.

The age of the Democratic Party’s lynchpins is a sensitive subject as the party prepares for life after 54-year-old President Obama.

Since Obama’s election in 2008, Democrats have wracked up net losses amounting to more than 900 seats in state legislatures, almost 70 House seats, 13 Senate seats and 12 governors’ mansions.

That has left Democrats with a seemingly thin bench as the party seeks to hold on to the Oval Office in part with appeals that it is the natural home for millennials.

It also stands in contrast with a Republican Party suddenly energized by an infusion of reliative youth. The GOP’s leaders now include 45-year-old Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), 44, is now a leading contender for the GOP’s presidential nomination, as is 44-year-old Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas).

Discussions about younger Democrats who can perform in the glare of the national spotlight tend to begin and end with 48-year-old Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), 46-year-old Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) and a pair of 41-year-old twins: Rep.Joaquín Castro (Texas) and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/259415-dems-search-for-fountain-of-youth

 

[cigaretteman]

Democrats lean heavily on young voters to win elections, but their leading candidates for the White House are 68-year-old Hillary Clinton and 74-year-old Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

The two other Democrats who were often implored to enter the race are Vice President Biden, 72, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), 66.

Democrats are led on Capitol Hill by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) — who are both 75.

\Pelosi’s top two lieutenants are 76-year-old Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (Md.) and 75-year-old Rep. James Clyburn (S.C.). In comparison, Reid’s expected successor as Democratic leader in the next Congress is a relative spring chicken: Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.) is 64.

The age of the Democratic Party’s lynchpins is a sensitive subject as the party prepares for life after 54-year-old President Obama.

Since Obama’s election in 2008, Democrats have wracked up net losses amounting to more than 900 seats in state legislatures, almost 70 House seats, 13 Senate seats and 12 governors’ mansions.

That has left Democrats with a seemingly thin bench as the party seeks to hold on to the Oval Office in part with appeals that it is the natural home for millennials.

It also stands in contrast with a Republican Party suddenly energized by an infusion of reliative youth. The GOP’s leaders now include 45-year-old Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), 44, is now a leading contender for the GOP’s presidential nomination, as is 44-year-old Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas).

Discussions about younger Democrats who can perform in the glare of the national spotlight tend to begin and end with 48-year-old Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), 46-year-old Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) and a pair of 41-year-old twins: Rep.Joaquín Castro (Texas) and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/259415-dems-search-for-fountain-of-youth

No. That seems to be the new silly wingnut meme though.

 

[Lone Clone]

Not all of us have gotten senile enough to vote Democratic.

 

[ottumwan in tx]

well, all you gotta do is scare them and say the repubs are gonna take away social security and medicare, and show a commercial with grandma being thrown off a cliff in a wheelchair, and make the guy throwing her a repubber

 

[Huey Grey]

Call us the party of old white people if you want. Still doesn't change the fact that young people and minorities don't vote Republican.

 

[ottumwan in tx]

Call us the party of old white people if you want. Still doesn't change the fact that young people and minorities don't vote Republican.

because they don't vote period

 

[Huey Grey]

because they don't vote period

During midterms, you may be right. But Presidential elections are another story.

 

[ottumwan in tx]

During midterms, you may be right. But Presidential elections are another story.

they don't vote, period, you guys with your fraud, you just say young people voted for Obama and America cannot question it for fear of being called racists, they did not vote. the voter fraud peeps just said young people came out and voted for Obama, no proof needed

 

[aflachawk]

Democrats lean heavily on young voters to win elections, but their leading candidates for the White House are 68-year-old Hillary Clinton and 74-year-old Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

The two other Democrats who were often implored to enter the race are Vice President Biden, 72, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), 66.

Democrats are led on Capitol Hill by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) — who are both 75.

\Pelosi’s top two lieutenants are 76-year-old Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (Md.) and 75-year-old Rep. James Clyburn (S.C.). In comparison, Reid’s expected successor as Democratic leader in the next Congress is a relative spring chicken: Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.) is 64.

The age of the Democratic Party’s lynchpins is a sensitive subject as the party prepares for life after 54-year-old President Obama.

Since Obama’s election in 2008, Democrats have wracked up net losses amounting to more than 900 seats in state legislatures, almost 70 House seats, 13 Senate seats and 12 governors’ mansions.

That has left Democrats with a seemingly thin bench as the party seeks to hold on to the Oval Office in part with appeals that it is the natural home for millennials.

It also stands in contrast with a Republican Party suddenly energized by an infusion of reliative youth. The GOP’s leaders now include 45-year-old Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), 44, is now a leading contender for the GOP’s presidential nomination, as is 44-year-old Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas).

Discussions about younger Democrats who can perform in the glare of the national spotlight tend to begin and end with 48-year-old Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), 46-year-old Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) and a pair of 41-year-old twins: Rep.Joaquín Castro (Texas) and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/259415-dems-search-for-fountain-of-youth

Despite Hillary running to the left, she is still somewhat of a moderate in that party. My prediction is from now on you will see only candidates from the extreme left running for POTUS. In addition you will see more and more America and free enterprise haters come to prominence in the party

 

[Huey Grey]

they don't vote, period, you guys with your fraud, you just say young people voted for Obama and America cannot question it for fear of being called racists, they did not vote. the voter fraud peeps just said young people came out and voted for Obama, no proof needed

And now you went down the baby route. I freely admit that a lot of our supporters don't come out for midterms. Why can't you admit that the GOP policies are what caused you to lose the WH?

 

[mstp1992]

they don't vote, period, you guys with your fraud, you just say young people voted for Obama and America cannot question it for fear of being called racists, they did not vote. the voter fraud peeps just said young people came out and voted for Obama, no proof needed

 

[The Tradition]

And now you went down the baby route. I freely admit that a lot of our supporters don't come out for midterms. Why can't you admit that the GOP policies are what caused you to lose the WH?

Obama is an extremely charismatic fellow. He would have been a formidable opponent no matter what was going on in the larger election considerations. And Bush didn't exactly have a VP positioned to run on continuing his policies, so it wasn't a referendum on that.

 

[ottumwan in tx]

And now you went down the baby route. I freely admit that a lot of our supporters don't come out for midterms. Why can't you admit that the GOP policies are what caused you to lose the WH?

what policies? the gop policies are democrat policies. the gop policies caused Obama to get in, the new world order globalists, most of them are gop or neocons or whatever they want to call themselves. what "baby route"??

 

[naturalmwa]

well, all you gotta do is scare them and say the repubs are gonna take away social security and medicare, and show a commercial with grandma being thrown off a cliff in a wheelchair, and make the guy throwing her a repubber

Why make commercials? Its all preordained, right? It doesn't matter what people vote for according to you. You should try to integrate your various world views.

 

[ottumwan in tx]

the gop are as big a leftists and commies as are the dems

Why make commercials? Its all preordained, right? It doesn't matter what people vote for according to you. You should try to integrate your various world views.

because the commercials are way more important than votes, votes don't happen but to the brain dead public, what is on tv is real: see kartrashians

all you gotta do is put it on tv and it is real see: main stream news

voting isn't real, electing people isn't real, tv is real, to these idiots running around America. watch mark dice sometime

 

[BondHawk]

Both parties are the parties of old, white people. It is kind of like organized religion.

 

[wyohawk]

Call us the party of old white people if you want. Still doesn't change the fact that young people and minorities don't vote Republican.

I'm just going to reemphasize this point.

 

[moral_victory]

Republican: Get off my lawn!
Democrat: Come share my yard with me.

How is that for corny and sappy?

 

[The Tradition]

Yeah, go try to have a picnic on Hillary's lawn and report back on what happens.

 

[Jan Itor]

No. That seems to be the new silly wingnut meme though.

See what happens when you get off script?

 

[moral_victory]

Yeah, go try to have a picnic on Hillary's lawn and report back on what happens.

Corporate democrat: Get off my lawn!
Former First Lady Corporate democrat: (detained by secret service)

 

[Jan Itor]

Call us the party of old white people if you want. Still doesn't change the fact that young people and minorities don't vote Republican.

Really? I'd like to see a link to prove that statement. Not a link that shows more voting for Dems, but one that backs the statement you made above.

 

[Jan Itor]

Republican: Get off my lawn!
Democrat: Come share my yard with me and I'll give you money, and other assorted handouts..

How is that for corny and sappy?

Fixed it for you.

 

[joelbc1]

People of color are flocking to the new GOP.

 

[moral_victory]

Fixed it for you.

Nah.

 

[wyohawk]

People of color are flocking to the new GOP.

Sarcasm detected and enjoyed.

The problem is conservatives make no efforts to appeal to demographics that continue to increase instead of aging and dying out.

Republicanism, in its current form, will be extinct in 2 generations, maybe 1.

 

[Jan Itor]

Nah.

The cow running on the Democratic side is playing the "Giver" to this point. You saying "nah" doesn't change that.

 

[moral_victory]

The cow running on the Democratic side is playing the "Giver" to this point. You saying "nah" doesn't change that.

Ok.

 

[TexMichFan]

Well you have to 34 to run so that leaves out a lot of them.

 

[ottumwan in tx]

Young people want everything free including installation of presidents without voting

 

[naturalmwa]

Young people want everything free including installation of presidents without voting

You keep telling us that's how it already works.

 

[ottumwan in tx]

I know its.how it works but young peeps think they just sit back and watch they are right

 

[ottumwan in tx]

See eventually some generation must get up off the couch and storm dc and have a revolution old folks wont do it millenials won't either

 

[ottumwan in tx]

See to millenials they think social media is actually voting they dont think they should go register and vote, just.post thats good enough

 

[naturalmwa]

See to millenials they think social media is actually voting they dont think they should go register and vote, just.post thats good enough

But you think that too. Come to terms with your own positions.