"I spent the past weekend in Atlanta, before heading off to Philadelphia and Phoenix and Reno, the final stops on an autumn-long Silver Wave Tour to turn out older voters for Kamala Harris. Third Act, the group I helped found two years ago to organize voters over the age of sixty for action on climate and democracy, now has a hundred thousand people on its e-mail list, and a lot of them are knocking on doors in swing states right now."
"In both 2016 and 2020, the Roper Center reports, voters over sixty-five backed Trump fifty-two per cent to forty-five, his widest margin in any age cohort. But there are tantalizing hints it may not be so this time around-the latest Times/Siena poll shows Harris with a modest lead among elder voters."
"An A.A.R.P. survey shows that women over fifty have moved more decisively toward Harris than any other group, increasing their support for the Democratic ticket by almost ten points in the course of the year, which is a huge jump in our stalemated politics."
"All of this jibes with what our volunteers report from retirement communities around the country-and it makes at least a little sense when you recollect that another way of saying that someone is old is to say that they came of age in a particular time."
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