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Why This Year's Pollsters
Are Stumped


Boston Globe Boston Globe Aug 8, 08 8:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - This year's presidential race is bamboozling many a pollster. Todd Domke looks at some of skewing factors for the Boston Globe : Race: White voters might be reluctant to tell pollsters they oppose a black candidate. Tom Bradley, remember, led the polls for California governor but lost the race. Then again, will white guilt over prejudice offset that?  More »

More about:  Barack Obama • John McCain • McCain 2008 • poll • race • opinion polls • age • age discrimination

Supreme Court Sides With Workers on Age Discrimination

Ruling shifts burden of proof to employers

New York Times New York Times Jun 19, 08 4:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court ruled today that it is up to employers in age-discrimination lawsuits to prove that their actions resulted from “reasonable factors other than age,” the New York Times reports. With the opinion making it easier for employees to sue, the court explained to opponents that Congress’ wording of the law “set the balance where it is.” More »

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ANALYSIS

Dems' Coded Message: McCain Is Old

GOP cries foul over between-the-lines jabs at candidate, 71

Politico Politico Jun 17, 08 12:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - To a chorus of Republican indignation, Democrats are taking subtle swipes at John McCain's, er, septuagenarian status. From Joe Scarborough saying the "doddering" 71-year-old "needs to go to Miami Beach and play checkers” to John Kerry calling him “confused” or Barack Obama, 46, noting McCain's “half-century of service,” conservatives see sleights. “It is code; there is no question,” said a Republican strategist. “They are trying to raise doubts.” More »

More about:  John McCain • McCain 2008 • age • age discrimination • political spin

 Gender and
 Race Aside,
 Age Pushes
 to Fore 

Boomers, seniors split on whether to support fellow oldster

New York Times New York Times Jun 15, 08 3:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Now that a primary season fraught with racism and sexism has ended, the nation now gears up to face its general-election gremlin: ageism. While John McCain, 71, may joke that the primary qualification to be president is "to be very, very, very, very old," the New York Times reports that his age may work for him among ever-more vibrant oldsters trying to break a gray ceiling, of sorts. More »

More about:  Barack Obama • John McCain • Obama 2008 • McCain 2008 • age • senior citizens • Baby Boom generation • baby boom • baby boomers • age discrimination • the senior vote

analysis

Revenge of
the Geezers?

As boomers hit 60, politics become
an old man's—or woman's—game

New York Times New York Times Apr 12, 08 1:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Once, Frank Lautenberg was a 58-year-old hopeful who implied that his opponent, at 72, was too old. Now, Lautenberg is running for re-election in New Jersey at the spry age of 84. “Age is not a factor,” he says. “The question is effectiveness.” But as John McCain seeks to become the oldest first-term president ever, age has become an issue, writes Gail Collins in the New York Times . More »

More about:  Election 2008 • John McCain • Hillary Clinton • old age • baby boomers • age discrimination

Americans Get More Liberal With Age

Long-term study
shows elders
trending left

LiveScience LiveScience Mar 10, 08 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The older a person gets, the more conservative he or she is likely to be, right? Wrong, say scientists who studied more than 46,000 people who responded to a US government survey from 1972 to 2004. In fact, a lead researcher tells LiveScience, "More people are changing in a liberal direction than in a conservative direction." More »

More about:  list • conservative • elderly • age • liberal • senior citizens • sociology • age discrimination

Supreme Court Declines to Rule in Ageism Case

District court to hear ex-Sprint employee's 'me too' evidence

New York Times New York Times Feb 26, 08 4:55 PM CST
(Newser) - The Supreme Court bounced an age-discrimination case back to district court for clarification today without making a ruling, the New York Times reports. The district court had ruled that other Sprint employees could not testify in the case of Ellen Mendelsohn, who alleges Sprint fired her because of her age. She was 51 at the time. More »

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