CNN —A truism of American politics is that older voters prefer the Republican and younger voters prefer the Democrat.
In 2012, Republican Mitt Romney lost the election, but he did better than Democrat Barack Obama among voters 45 and older.
Older voters are gravitating to Biden, and younger voters are taking a look at Trump.
But older voters have gone in the opposite direction, and instead of favoring Trump, are nearly split in the Marist poll.
Despite the shift of older voters in the direction of Biden (and younger voters away from him), I was surprised to see older voters still have reservations about Biden’s age.
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