For the record, RFK Jr. is 69.
RT:
The overwhelming majority of Americans believe that the country should not be run by an elderly president, a poll by the Pew Research Center has revealed.
Only 3% of respondents said they wanted someone in their 70s or older in the Oval Office, according to the study, which came out on Thursday.
Aged 80, current US President Joe Biden is the oldest-ever American leader. His main rival in next year’s presidential election is Donald Trump, who turned 77 in June.
The authors of the poll noted that they did not specifically mention Biden or Trump when asking people about the “ideal age” for the head of state.
However, according to the poll, Americans are also unlikely to have faith in a young president. The US Constitution dictates that the White House occupant must be at least 35 years of age, and only 3% of those surveyed said they wanted the head of state to be in their 30s.
Almost half of respondents (49%) believe that the president should be someone in their 50s. Another 24% said they’d like the head of state to be in their 60s, while 17% opted for someone in their 40s, the poll showed.
Views about the ideal presidential age were similar among Democrats and Republicans, the study pointed out.
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A poll last month by CNN/SSRS revealed that 36% of Americans are against Biden and Trump running in the 2024 election. A race between the two would be something “a historic number of Americans don’t want,” CNN stated.
If you’re talking about first term, based on the stupid American system of only allowing two terms, it seems ideal to have someone in their mid to late 50s.
If we didn’t have the two-term system, which I personally think is stupid and nonsensical, then you would have a whole other situation, where you would want people to be groomed for the job from a young age. Ideally, you would want some kind of dynastic system, where the son or other younger relative of the leader was groomed, and served as a kind of shadow of the current leader.
In real terms, however, American competency is rapidly slipping, and the younger a person is, the more likely they are to be totally incompetent. The boomers, for all the shit they get, are likely the last actually competent generation of Americans. It’s not a huge surprise that they are the ones leading all the presidential races since the 1990s.
That said, if the Democrats do manage to replace Brandon with Gavin Newsom, I think there is going to be a lot of energy around that.