Ah, the older voter. Once every four years, around the time we elect a new president, we codgers get a little respect.
People realize that we actually vote in large numbers. Other times we are seen mainly as customers for gutter guards and Medicare Advantage plans – I see you, Joe Namath.
We seniors have been around long enough to realize that our votes matter on pocketbook issues such as Social Security, taxes and health care.
Maybe it’s the ringing in our ears from old age, but we also get better at tuning out the noise that seems to drive so much of modern media coverage of presidential elections. We don’t – or can’t – hear all those cable news “bombshells.” Please.
As a political moderate – and the person who balances the checkbook at our house – I always look at how an election will affect our household.