So.... stumbled across a Gallup poll, and while the overall numbers are pretty normal (49% Approval rating for Obama, etc), the breakdown inside it was pretty surprising.
It really is coming down to two different Americas, with two DRASTIC different views on what's going on and where the country should go... Any ideas why? I mean, Republicans have voted to gut Medicare, turn SS into a voucher program, and one of the main methods for containing health care costs / the deficit was to have Medicare payments to beneficiaries rise slower than the rate of health care inflation.
And yet they're the ones most solidly behind the Republican party? What am I missing?
The thing that struck me was over, and over, and over again, the 65+ went the opposite way of the entire rest of the country. They're the only ones with a positive approval rating for Republicans, the only ones who have a higher than 50% disapproval rating of Obama, the only ones who trust Republicans in Congress over Obama to handle the country's problems, the only ones to have a disfavorable rating of the Democratic party, the only group to have a favorable rating of the Tea Party,and so on.
It really is coming down to two different Americas, with two DRASTIC different views on what's going on and where the country should go... Any ideas why? I mean, Republicans have voted to gut Medicare, turn SS into a voucher program, and one of the main methods for containing health care costs / the deficit was to have Medicare payments to beneficiaries rise slower than the rate of health care inflation.
And yet they're the ones most solidly behind the Republican party? What am I missing?
