I don’t understand how anyone thinks an 81 year old person should be leader of a nation. And will they ever produce good stuff instead of what they’ve been trying and failing to do for so many years and it hurts the people.
When will they help the citizens instead of funding the military and fancy projects that waste money, cutting taxes for billionaires and raising them for the poor, cut social security, cut medicare, cut this, cut that, more money to the military.
So messed up.
I don’t know good places to find accurate news.
I’d say a large part is that older voters outvote younger ones by about 50%. (From what I remember, this advantage widens during the primary process, which is when parties select their candidates.)
With regards to Biden, he’s more likely to win elderly voters because A) they don’t see his age as as much of an issue as we might (think about trying to take Grandpa’s license) and B) his more moderate stances are more likely to sway elder voters who are a little put off with some of our more progressive candidates.
Basically, it’s a problem of our own making. If young people voted at similar rates to middle age and elderly voters, we’d probably have had a Sanders run in 2016, maybe 2020 but it’d be unlikely to be Biden.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gen-millennials-voters-2022-midterms-favored-democrats-stopping/story?id=93338313
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/midterm-election-voter-turnout-pew-research-center_n_5cee9631e4b0975ccf5ea761
From the first article "According to the exit polling, 18-to 29-year-olds accounted for 12% of voters in the midterms – the lowest share of the electorate compared to other age groups "
The second one includes those under 54 as “younger” voters.
Here’s a simple graph:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1096299/voter-turnout-presidential-elections-by-age-historical/
You’ll notice that in 2020, the youngest, presumably most progressive voters votes at about 48%. The oldest, presumably most conservative voters, voted at a rate of 71.9% , or almost exactly one and a half times as much as their younger counter parts.