Post by Logan on Mar 21, 2016 4:40:42 GMT -6
Older Voters May Be Hillary Clinton’s Answer to Bernie Sanders’s Youth Appeal
LAKE WORTH, Fla. — 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.
They were diligently calling voters to remind them to be at their polling locations no later than 7 p.m. and to be sure to vote for Hillary Clinton.
Mrs. Wolfson, who was volunteering for Mrs. Clinton, said she realized Senator Bernie Sanders had excited young people, but all of her friends and neighbors in her retirement community here were rooting for the former first lady and secretary of state.
“I’ve been a Hillary fan since she came out of Arkansas,” Mrs. Wolfson said. “We remember how she just hasn’t stopped.”
Read more: www.nytimes.com/2016/03/21/us/politics/hillary-clinton-older-voters.html
LAKE WORTH, Fla. — 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.
They were diligently calling voters to remind them to be at their polling locations no later than 7 p.m. and to be sure to vote for Hillary Clinton.
Mrs. Wolfson, who was volunteering for Mrs. Clinton, said she realized Senator Bernie Sanders had excited young people, but all of her friends and neighbors in her retirement community here were rooting for the former first lady and secretary of state.
“I’ve been a Hillary fan since she came out of Arkansas,” Mrs. Wolfson said. “We remember how she just hasn’t stopped.”
Read more: www.nytimes.com/2016/03/21/us/politics/hillary-clinton-older-voters.html