Image by Getty Images via @daylifeby Kirk JohnsonIn an election year of hype and hyperbole, one fact resonates across all contests and candidates: in midterm elections, many people tune out and stay home, but older voters vote. It is a deeply rutted pattern in American history that could swing race after race.
“We’re calling them, we’re mailing them — they’re getting a tremendous amount of attention,” said Walt Klein, a longtime political consultant in Colorado who is working for Ken Buck, the Tea Party-backed Republican candidate for the Senate.
But politicians like Mr. Buck, in focusing on significant issues for retirees like Social Security and Medicare, are also finding that the picture is more complicated than a simple calculation that gray hair equates to a certain position on issue X or Y.
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