The LA Times wrote:
Barack Obama may be the darling of the college set, but the Medicare crowd is another story. While young Democratic voters have gravitated to his presidential campaign, seniors have stampeded to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s.
That’s why it was welcome news to his supporters when Max Allan Collins, a writer, rose at a recent campaign event here to announce that his 82-year-old mother wanted to vote for Obama.
“He’s so sincere,” said Pat Collins, a Republican who is turning toward the Democrats because she is disillusioned by President Bush and fearful that her grandson could be sent to Iraq. “He would bring the nation together,” she said of Obama.
Collins’ conversion is one sign that the Illinois senator, whose campaign’s greatest appeal is among younger voters, is making urgently needed inroads into the over-60 set as he struggles to catch up to front-runner Clinton.
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November 19, 2007 at 8:08 am
Posted this message on CNN this morning:
As usual CNN stacks the deck by writing an inaccurate description of the L.A. Times article on Obama. If you were to read just this CNN blurb:
“Barack Obama may be the darling of the college set, but the Medicare crowd is another story. While young Democratic voters have gravitated to his presidential campaign, seniors have stampeded to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s.”
you would get the idea that he is doing badly — obviously CNN’s intent. But the gist of the L.A. Times piece is exactly the opposite. It is a very positive article — Obama is GAINING with seniors! You’ve been given notice CNN — we aren’t going to keep silent about your blatent Clinton advocacy anymore.