voters this year, and certainly there were a lot of devastated young (albeit white) faces in the Mourning in America tumblir. Any looming time bombs in there for Team Blue? We don't want to be guilty of the same myopic triumphalism we see on the other side of the aisle. Sgt. Gym Bunny on November 14, 2012 1:34 PM: What a pity it is for the Republicans that they can't birth some Benjamin Buttons... boatboy_srq on November 14, 2012 2:00 PM: The conventional wisdom is that people become more conservative as they age. The kind of senility - or early-onset Alzheimer's - that the GOTea would require, however, usually doesn't set in until at least 70. The modern GOTea is not, not, NOT "conservative": it's radical, borderline fascist, and as like to the Webster's definition of conservative as chalk is to cheese. If anything, the maturing voters are drawn to the Democratic party because it has become the conservative party - and the GOTea is goosestepping right off the wingnut cliff. Zorro on November 14, 2012 4:17 PM: This definitely implies good things for the Democratic Party. It resembles the bond that then-young people formed w/Roosevelt and his policies during the '30s. That voting base formed the core of Democrats who established the postwar liberal consensus that really only ended w/Reagan. That was followed, of course, by the ~30 years of conservative dominance that *may* be ending now. Perhaps the pendulum will swing back again, so that we could see