Older Voters May Be Hillary Clinton’s Answer to Bernie Sanders’s Youth Appeal

The afternoon of the Florida primaries last week, Sylvia Wolfson, 87, and more than a dozen other retirees scurried around an office set up with trays of cookies from Costco and large-print instructions on how to unlock the restroom door. …

Mrs. Clinton can thank voters like Mrs. Wolfson not just for her double-digit victory last Tuesday night in Florida, but also for propelling her in every state she has won this primary season. Indeed, while Mr. Sanders’s message of political revolution has made him the overwhelming choice of the Snapchat generation, Mrs. Clinton is doing just fine counting on voters who came of age with Polaroids. …

“This is a good Democratic constituency,” said Scott Keeter, a senior survey adviser at the Pew Research Center, ”and for a presidential candidate to be commanding a very high degree of loyalty from this group is a tremendous benefit going into a fall election.” CONT.

Amy Chozick, New York Times

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