Chicago area residents flee from senior community after 300% increase in costs
Chicago area residents flee from senior community after 300% increase in costs
Over the last several weeks, the Saint Charles senior living community has become a bit of a ghost town.
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And yet they'll all still vote Republican.
89 0 ReplyA majority of Democratic voters (57%) were ages 50 and older in the 2022 midterms, compared with 51% of Joe Biden’s voters in 2020 and 53% of voters who supported a Democratic House candidate in 2018. Just 14% of Democratic voters were under the age of 30 in 2022 — similar to the 15% of Democratic voters who were in this age group in 2018, but less than their share of Democratic voters in 2020 (17%).
Seven-in-ten Republican voters were 50 and older in the most recent election, compared with 62% of Republican voters in 2020 and 68% in 2018.
34 0 ReplyAll that proves is that old people vote more than young people. Not that a majority of old people vote Democrat.
29 0 ReplyIt also proves that not all older people vote Republicans
16 0 ReplyIf you've ever been to St Charles, you'll understand why I said what I said.
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Those are people who actually voted in the off-year election, not people whos view or registration. https://www.statista.com/statistics/319068/party-identification-in-the-united-states-by-generation/ shows that those in Gen x and above (43 year old an above) Republicans have a ~10% margin over Democrats. Even Pew agrees that Party or Leans-Party favors Republicans in the over 50 group by roughly the same margin https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/06/02/the-changing-composition-of-the-electorate-and-partisan-coalitions/
24 0 ReplyA 10% margin for the republicans indicates a 45%/55% split in voting. In other words, 45% (!) vote Democrat, making this a huge over-generalization.
3 0 ReplyBut not all elderly people vote Republican. That's my point.
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thats because 50 is past the middway point for the Xers. If you look at the 65+ band republicans increased over democrats 20 to 22.
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Illinois has been voting blue since 1992, the current president is a Democrat, what does this have to do with republicans?
5 0 ReplyHahahahahhahahah. Another person that doesn't realize that Chicago votes blue, but almost of the rest of the state is a deep, deep red.
My representative is January 6's Mary "hitler is right" Miller.
7 0 ReplyBut the article specifies chicago area, ie cook county which votes blue
Edited for semantics
2 0 ReplyOh yeah. The world famous Chicago County. But never forget to much more famous, New York City County! And don't miss Miami County!
And st Charles isn't in one county, it's in two. Dupage and Kane.
1 0 ReplyMeant cook county, no need to be a jackass, jackass
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