• Tell Your Grandparents to Stop Being Jerks to Mitt Romney
Older people vote for Republicans. That's the way things have
always been; that's the way things should always be. It's the
cycle of life. You start out as a young person on the left, you
plant your feet and then the entire world shifts leftward past
you until you find yourself on the right, and you're complaining
about whatever the kids want by then. Robots marrying dogs?
Maybe. Who knows. All that matters is that it'll be too weird
for you, and you won't internalize any of the good arguments for
it, and you'll shake your fist and vote for the Republican who
is pretending to be opposed to it to get your angry vote.
This is a delicate time-honored system, and your grandparents
are currently screwing it all up       Romney's double-digit
advantages among older voters on the issues of healthcare and
Medicare – the nation's health insurance program for those over
65 and the disabled – also have evaporated, and Obama has begun
to build an advan