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Originally Posted by Galaril
Nah by the time Dole was going for POTUS he was a relic.
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Originally Posted by ISiddiqui
And Biden is what?
Dole was 3 years younger than Biden is now when the election happened in 1996.
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Think Nixon/Kennedy for a comp.
Dole may have been younger than Biden, but Biden wouldn't be running against a fella in his 30s or 40s.
How old you are (no more septuagenarians) gets exacerbated when you're running against someone significantly younger.
Put another way, if age matters that much to the electorate after 4 years of Trump, you'd expect Buttigieg to wipe the floor with Trump. He's reasonably moderate, telegenic, and much younger than Grampa McTwitterShitter.
But the fact that Biden/Warren/Sanders are the Democratic frontrunners and Buttigieg, Booker, etc are just hanging back waiting for that pair to publicly shit themselves suggests that age isn't a disqualifer to the electorate in the same way it was in 1960 or 1996.