Seniority

Mia Culpa (via a link from Atrios) dissects some recent polling numbers and gives the Republicans one more thing to worry about:

By a 65%-19% margin, Americans age 65 and above disapprove of the performance of Congress; those under 65 are also negative but less lopsidedly, 58%-27%. Moreover, senior citizens say by 47%-37% that they want Democrats rather than Republicans to win control of Capitol Hill. Those under 65 prefer a Democratic victory by a narrower 45%-39% margin.

MC points out that this will be very interesting in the coming 2006 midterm elections as older voters make up a larger percentage of the voting pool:

Voters older than 60 made up 24% of those voting in 2004, but a larger 28% in the 1998 midterm contest, the last such campaign for which exit-poll data are available.