There's an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.
Our members are very much maligned. Obviously the average age is 60 something, but they all have children and grandchildren, they understand what we need to do, they want to win.
I just think that the older you get, the more you appreciate the responsibility of politics.
I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics.
I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.
I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
When politics is interesting, people go vote.
It doesn't take a lot of seniority to vote the way you promised to vote.
The way people imagine their political leaders is, like it or not, an important factor in how they decide to vote and, indeed, whether they vote at all.
There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.