Mitt Romney Losing Support Among Seniors

furturesofa.tumblr.com A poll released Monday by Reuters and Ipsos proves the obvious: if a candidate talks tough on Medicare and other social welfare programs of use to senior citizens, the elderly will return the favor by deserting his campaign in droves. The latest unfortunate politician to learn this lesson is Republican nominee for president Mitt Romney, who has seen his support collapse by 20 percent among men and women over the age of 60 in the few weeks since the Democratic National Convention.

Mitt Romney at one of his presidential campaign rallies. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Romney and his vice-presidential pick, congressman Paul Ryan, have attempted to make entitlement reform one of the main legs of their argument against another term by President Barack Obama, arguing that programs such as Medicare are financially unsustainable as currently constructed.   bedroomdecor2012.tumblr.com/post/32210353390/escape-wenge-best-deal-on-julian-kitchen-island bedroomdecor2012.tumblr.com/tagged/Ameriwood bedroomdecor2012.tumblr.com/post/32210482245/formal-dining-table-cheap-louis-phillippe-youth-full bedroomdecor2012.tumblr.com/tagged/Afina+Corporation bedroomdecor2012.tumblr.com/post/32208458533/afina-corporation-dd2721rrusca-afina-corporation bedroomdecor2012.tumblr.com/post/32210672789/granville-sling-stationary-bar-sycamore-hammered bedroomdecor2012.tumblr.com/tagged/Fashion-Bed-Group bedroomdecor2012.tumblr.com/archive?before_time=1348514992 bedroomdecor2012.tumblr.com/post/32210383290/euro-slat-foundation-buy-solid-wood-3-drawer 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This plan — often known as Ryancare — has given Ryan a certain amount of street cred amongst the right wing of the Republican party, which attracts the sort of people who think medical care is a privilege that should be paid for by individuals on a case-by-case basis and that to believe anything else is not simple human decency, but a mark of out of control entitlement worthy of a Kardashian sister. (This wing of the Republican party also apparently attracts the sort of people who don’t understand that infectious diseases aren’t making distinctions about whether their host bodies have insurance and can pay their bills, but I am off topic here.) However, winning the approval of Beltway desk jockeys is a far cry from gaining the approval of potential voters — you know, those people who have lost hours of their life chatting with Belinda in claims adjustment and understand intuitively that no private health insurer is likely to offer a plan the average 85-year-old can afford. No doubt pollsters are now digging in to figure out what exactly made the over-55 crowd decide that the “I Got Mine” platform isn’t going to do it for them in 2012 but while we are waiting for the numbers, let me make a few common sense suggestions.