To the ice-floes, granny!

But the beauty part of Alter’s vengeful, age-ist screed is that he’s wrong on the facts. Alter attribute’s Barry’s stomping in PA to the Granny vote, but TalkLeft straightens him out:

This is false in every particular. The PA exit polls prove this. Clinton won ALL voters 40-49 by 54-46. She won ALL voters 50-64 by 57-43. These two age groups comprised 56% of the vote in Pennsylvania. Of course Clinton also won all whites 60 and older by 68-32. But she also won all whites 18-29 by 52-48. She also won all whites 30-44 by 58-42.

TalkLeft is just trying to confuse the issues with facts. The real point, as usual, is the narrative, which is, as Boller, Stowers, and Brazile have been at pains to point out recently, that some constituencies that used to be important to the Democratic Party no longer have a place in it. It’s no coincidence that these constituencies need government to work for them.

Somebody who knows about such things can tell me if Obama reminds them of Tony Blair on the way up. I’m guessing yes.