Boomers Swing to Right

The Los Angeles Times' Doyle McManus has an interesting column about a change in the voting patterns of the 50-65 age group: they are swinging to the GOP. His article appears in the Dallas News. McManus is a frequent guest on the PBS show Washington Week. See what he says about this trend:

A Pew Research poll released this month found that most voters over 50 say they favor the Republicans in November's congressional election. Voters in their 30s and 40s were evenly split; voters younger than 30 favored the Democrats. That's a big problem for Democrats, in two ways.
First, older voters are a bloc the party doesn't want to lose. (snip) About two-thirds of November's voters will be 50 or older.
Second, the defections may reflect a deeper, longer-term trend: The baby boom generation appears to be growing more conservative as it ages. (snip) "There's evidence that those two generations, the early boomers and the seniors, may be converging," said Andrew Kohut, Pew's director. "If it holds up – and we'll see in November – that could be a significant change."

There is an old saying we've quoted on COTTonLINE several times, I think it applies again here:

If you're under 30 and aren't liberal you have no heart. If you're over 30 and not conservative you have no brain.

Our readers are mostly over 30.