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Why are People who voted MAJORITY Republican SURPRISED that Republicans are doing LITERALLY what they Campaigned on?
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2025
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Just for reference: https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/government-elections/info-2024/post-election-poll.html
For no reason in particular.
Older voters saw Democrats as more equipped to handle issues important to Americans 50-plus, such as Social Security, Medicare, the cost of prescription drugs and the ability to age independently at home. But Democrats’ edge over the GOP was relatively small on those questions, a sea change from polling 10 to 15 years ago, when Democrats had a bigger advantage, Ward says.
Fuck themselves I hope they all don't get their checks. This fuckers are huge Trump supporters. What pisses me off is us who are paying in (by no choice of our own) who will never get to use our benefits. That money gone forever.
Did you read the link? Because they aren’t “huge supporters”. They’re near evenly split - 50% republicans, 47% democrat.
I thought it was going to be much worse than this but it’s a pretty close split.
Yeah I was really surprised by that. I expected way more for the GOP. My view might be scwed by all the old people in my family voted for trump.
I speaking about mostly my neighbors who are retired living on social security who love trump.