“As much as diversity is growing in the U.S., the baby boomer generation still has a lot of financial power, political power and consumer power,” said William Frey, a demographer and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Older Americans are more likely to vote than millennials and Gen Xers, particularly in midterm and primary elections. Older voters have unique characteristics and specific interests that transcend the Democratic-Republican divide. A Widening Economic Gap What makes older voters unique is not necessarily their partisan affiliations. Older voters have strikingly different wealth and income profiles than younger voters.

Source: Huffington Post March 11, 2019 18:49 UTC