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Susan Milligan is visiting six Election 2012 battleground states to talk with 50-plus voters for a report that will be published in the September issue of the AARP Bulletin. She posted this from a career fair in Independence, Ohio.
This year's presidential campaign, more than any in history, will play out on a digital battleground - everything from the candidates' own websites to Facebook and Twitter and anything, really, that comes to us byte-by-byte. Digital ads have joined television and radio ads as instruments of…
North Dakota voters, make up your minds: Do you want to end Medicare as we know it, or do you want to stick with a "government takeover" of health care that makes more than $500 billion in painful cuts to Medicare?
Mitt Romney's "favorable" rating has been on something of a roller coaster in 2012. But the more older Republican primary voters have seen him, the more they seem to like him.
Political tradition in Virginia comes down to shad - an oily, bony fish that someone once decided would be just delicious if it were split in two and cooked on wooden planks over an open fire.
It bugs me when marketers refer to "the over-50 crowd." Whether hawking online dating services or warning about the dangers of STDs, they seem to see us as one huge lump of aging humanity. It feels like we disappear as individuals. Sure, I'm over 50, but that isn't top of mind as I go about my day.
Republican Richard Lugar, who recently turned 80 and is the longest-serving Senator in Indiana history, is facing a serious re-election challenge from within his own party this year. Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., is, at 82, expecting a tough run in the general election this fall. And at 78, Sen.…
Boomer women who lived through the "mommy wars" a couple of decades ago were probably surprised to see that old conflict resurface on the campaign trail this week. The good news is that the skirmish was short-lived, and there seems to be bipartisan agreement that being a mom is ... duh ... hard…
As older Republican primary voters go, so went Rick Santorum's presidential campaign.
Republican primary voters are getting older. And it's not just because, like the rest of us, they've aged four years since the last presidential election.