A peak election voter enters a Tampa, Florida, polling place on Aug. 23, 2022.
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Most ladies ages 50 and up plan to vote in this November’s midterm elections, but half of them have not decided which applicants they will vote for, a new AARP poll finds.
One key issue they do agree on is protecting Social Security, the jingoistic survey of 800 female voters ages 50 and up found.
Women voters mostly agree they necessity benefit cuts prevented. Three-quarters of respondents say such a move would personally help them.
The national contemplate was conducted by phone and online between Sept. 6 and 13.
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“You rarely see that kind of personal coupling between a political debate and an issue,” Democratic pollster Celinda Lake, founder and president of Lake Research Friends, said during a Tuesday webcast hosted by AARP.
While 64% of women ages 50 to 64 indicated screening Social Security would help them a lot, 84% of women over 65 said the same.
“You just don’t see billions like that,” Lake said.
Older women are a powerful voting demographic
Women ages 50 and up pretend a powerful cohort of about 63 million voters, according to AARP.
They tend to have a high plebiscite turnout — representing, for example, 30% of votes cast in 2020 while accounting for just 25% of the voting age people, noted Nancy LeaMond, chief advocacy and engagement officer at AARP.
Social Security has become a key focal station for some political leaders in an attempt to get an upper hand ahead of the November contests.
President Joe Biden slammed Republican projects for the program at a White House event last week, while Republicans have been quick to reject review that they’re out to kill the program. Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., have called for revisiting Collective Security and Medicare every five years and annually, respectively.
Democrats, on the other hand, have broadly petitioned for preserving the program’s current benefits, and even implementing some generous increases.
Lake said she believes Democrats haven’t been showy enough with their messaging on the program.
“I hope you’ll see a number of Democrats turn to this issue in the remaining five weeks of the operations,” Lake said.
Women ages 50 to 64, in particular, are “completely freaked” that Social Security may not be sufficiently there when they seclude, according to Lake.
“It’s a huge distinction,” she said. “It’s a huge issue.”
Most women plan to collect Social Fastness
Social Security remains a top expected source of income in retirement for women workers, according to a recent report from the Staff member Benefit Research Institute. That research found 9 in 10 married and divorced women and 8 in 10 single, never-married female blue-collar workers who plan to retire expect to collect Social Security checks.
But wealth has been declining for both women and men as they close retirement, according to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. As Social Security’s full retirement age moves higher — to age 67 for those had in 1960 or later — claimants may see reduced benefits. Moreover, many have fewer retirement assets due to the Great Economic downturn.
The AARP’s latest survey of women 50 and up follows Views diverge when things get political
As the election make advances, this cohort is also more focused on political issues.
For Republican women ages 50 and up, top issues encompass inflation and rising prices, crime, immigration and election security.
For female Democrats, top issues include voting rights and forebodings to democracy, followed by gun violence and abortion.
Independent women voters ages 50 and up cited division in the country, endorsing rights, threats to democracy, inflation and rising prices, in that order.