The DailyKos analysis of the Chained CPI dispute starts from the premise that the President has alienated older voters:
Except it’s not the base of the party that’s (57+ / 0-)
upset. It’s the majority of Americans, especially elderly voters, whose votes Democrats need in the 2014 elections. The President really doesn’t care about the electoral future of the Democratic party. Why should he? He sees himself as being post-partisan, and it’d be a terrible partisan thing to do to adhere close to Democratic party ideology.
And the data:
Senior citizens, who swung to the Democrats during the Medicare and Social Security fights of the 1990s, have swerved to Republicans. Close to six in 10 seniors backed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, according to exit polls Tuesday, up from the 51% of the group siding with Sen. John McCain in 2008.
The split by age reached even deeper: A majority of voters age 40 and older sided with Mr. Romney. The majority of every younger age group voted for Mr. Obama, according to exit polls [WSJ]
So if the premise was correct, which is far from obvious, then calling a proposal which funds young children and jobs and environment to a small extent at the expense of projected increases in SS payments “post partisan” would be getting things precisely backwards. The proposal is designed particularly to appeal to people who vote Democrat. Like many DailyKossians, Slinkerwink has demographic ideas that are exceptionally out of date. In any event, the idea that older voters who overwhelmingly supported Paul Ryan will flee from the Democrats because of this proposal is even more absurd though.
The main post, by Markos Moulitsas is even dumber.
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