Department of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Gerontologist. 2012 Jun;52(3):408-17. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnr118. Epub 2011 Nov 1.
To analyze the extent to which Americans aged 65 and older may have voted as an old age-benefits bloc in the 2010 midterm election in response to threats of Medicare rationing.
Analysis of age group data from the Edison Research 2010 Election Day exit polls, complemented by data published elsewhere.
For the first time in 4 decades, there were signs of an old-age voting bloc in the 2010 election; yet, analysis of the age group data by sex and race/ethnicity reveals notable differences among these subgroups.
This new tendency toward old-age bloc voting may well continue in the 2012 election and beyond. If "reforming" Medicare and Social Security persist as policy issues, the votes of older persons may increasingly be affected to a much greater degree than in past elections.
分析 2010 年中期选举中，65 岁及以上的美国人可能会以老年福利集团的身份投票的程度，以回应对医疗保险配给制的威胁。
对爱迪生研究公司 2010 年选举日出口民调的年龄组数据进行分析，并辅以其他地方公布的数据。
这是 40 年来首次在 2010 年选举中出现老年投票集团的迹象；然而，对按性别和种族/族裔划分的年龄组数据进行分析表明，这些亚组之间存在显著差异。
这种新的老年集团投票趋势很可能会在 2012 年选举及以后继续下去。如果“改革”医疗保险和社会保障继续成为政策问题，老年人的选票可能会比过去的选举受到更大的影响。
