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February 27, 2008 |Permalink |Comments (1)
Obama Courts Middle-Aged and Elderly Women
Love the headline---- not.
But the article is one of the first that addresses a presidential candidate tip-toeing toward addressing aging in anyway.
Aging
Climate Change
These are the two invisible but extra-ordinary issues of this campaign.
Here is the take from the WSJ's Washington Wire...
Nick Timiraos deserves credit for filing the story. I'd like to see much more-- from all the candidates.
At a roundtable event detailing proposals on pension reform and social security, Obama addressed five middle-aged women who described how they have lost their jobs, and he included a thinly veiled criticism of both the Bush and Clinton administrations: “Part of what we’ve seen in this economy over the last 10 years, over the last 20 years, there is a sliver, a segment of the population that is doing extraordinarily well and then you’ve got the rest of folks who are just having a difficult time.”Obama has made steady gains among middle-aged voters and women in recent weeks. Among women in Wisconsin, Clinton held a five-point advantage, down from her 12-point lead over Obama in New Hampshire.
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Nick Timiraos -- I know that byline! It's a long way from interning at Stateline.org to covering a presidential campaign for The Wall Street Journal eh? Give me a shout if you happen upon this post -- kavan@umbc.edu (I work in higher-ed now and am webmaster for this blog).
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