In Presidential Politics, Maybe Age is Just a Number

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golf-cart chariot to carry him less than a half-mile as his powerful peers walked that short Sicilian stroll. Meanwhile, Biden rides a bike for pleasure. (Yes, we all know he’s fallen off his bike.

Young people don’t fall off bikes?)Yet a February NBC News poll shows 62 percent of voters having major concerns about Biden’s age, with only 34 percent feeling similarly about Trump, who looks like a heart attack about to happen.

In this poll, more respondents cared about Biden’s age than Trump’s mountain of criminal liability! Would it help if Biden dyed his skin orange and coifed his hair cornsilk-style?Plenty of us are thinking about age.

The Washington Post advice columnist Karla L. Miller certainly is. Reading a piece she wrote in January about long-term unemployment, there were a couple of jarring bits she included thanks to Ofer Sharone, a professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.“Sharone cites a 2018 study by ProPublica and the Urban Institute showing that 56 percent of workers between age 50 and retirement will suffer at least one ‘involuntary job separation’; of those, only 10 percent will again earn a salary comparable with what they were making,” Miller wrote.