While the 2008 presidential election saw the second highest voter turn out among Americans aged 18-29 in American history (66% of those voted for Barack Obama), older Americans consistently vote in higher percentages than any other age group (United Press International 2008). They are also growing at a faster rate than ever before. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that the population aged 65 and above is expected to double in size within the next 25 years to some 72 million people and grow to over 86 million by 2050.
As boomers age and transition into the Social Security and Medicare systems they will come to expect, enjoy and appreciate the benefits that these programs afford them. They will not want to give them up. They will vote in their ever increasing numbers (an estimated 10,000 boomers will turn 65 everyday for the next 18 years) to protect these programs from those who would seek to destroy them. Logic dictates that Republicans will be billed for their congressional votes by aging boomers and American working families just in time to pay at the 2012 ballot box.
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