since their retirement 401k evaporated during the Bush administration, are voting for Romney because they "care about medicare and social security."

and the medicare as they know it won't be around

Medicare under the Ryan proposal. It's there way of divide and conquer. The people who have Medicare now are safe but we who are younger will get the voucher scheme. Too many seniors just care about themselves and not about the rest of us.

political operations. Combine that with the influence of Fox News and you have woefully uninformed voters of all ages who vote against their own interests. Seniors are not immune from these influences, but it does seem they would be more wary of the immediate threat they would face with R and R. Just look at any Tea Party gathering. The majority of them are older, white folks.

I think our best hope for a more progressive society will come when the current population of seniors are gone. Unfortunately, I probably will not see it. As a senior myself, I'll probably be gone, too.....

70% to 26% for Obama. Too bad we don't vote as much as we should in this age group. Older voters tend to vote more. I wish I could get more of us to vote but even in their 30's my husband, brother and my sister in laws don't vote. I think I am the only one of my friends that vote and at 36 I am not THAT young.