Also about US Politics

Bob Choi

16 FEB 2012

US politics is interesting not because it's often a tug-of-war between the Democrats and Republicans, but because it's a struggle between the liberals and conservatives. It's a known fact that people tend to become conservative as they mature (which is a nice way of saying "as they get old"). Thus, in a simple analysis, US politics is a fight for dominance between the young and the old.

Needless to say, this is an over-simplification as there are for sure young Republicans and old Democrats, but looking back you will find that most Democratic presidents were young while most Republican presidents were old.

Long story short, here's my foolish predictor of US presidential outcome: a Democratic candidate is more likely to win the presidency if he/she is young whereas a Republican candidate is more likely to win if he/she is old. We all know Obama is young, now how about Mitt Romney... is he old enough?