{"id":2027545,"date":"2023-09-10T20:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T00:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-than-three-quarters-of-voters-want-an-age-limit-imposed-on-politicians-poll\/"},"modified":"2023-09-10T20:47:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T00:47:38","slug":"more-than-three-quarters-of-voters-want-an-age-limit-imposed-on-politicians-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-than-three-quarters-of-voters-want-an-age-limit-imposed-on-politicians-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 75% of voters support age limit for politicians: Poll."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmore-than-three-quarters-of-voters-want-an-age-limit-imposed-on-politicians-poll%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2027545&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Majority of Voters Support Age Limits for \u200dElected Office, Poll Finds<\/h2>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/only-22-of-cable-news-is-news-study\/\" title=\"Only 22% of Cable \u2018News\u2019 is News: Study\">recent poll conducted<\/a> by\u2063 CBS News and\u200b YouGov revealed that a large\u200d majority of \u2064voters believe there should be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-senator-denies-republican-claims-that-biden-is-too-old-to-be-president-2\/\" title=\"Democrat senator refutes GOP's age-related criticism of Biden's presidential eligibility.\">age\u200d limits<\/a> for those pursuing elected office. The survey, conducted at the end of August, found that 77% of respondents agreed with the idea of\u2064 age limits.<\/p>\n<p>Within this group,\u200d 40% of respondents proposed an age limit of 70 years \u200cold,\u2063 which is over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/molly-ringwald-explains-why-she-turned-down-lead-role-in-pretty-woman\/\" title=\"Molly Ringwald Explains Why She Turned Down Lead Role In \u2018Pretty Woman\u2019\">ten years older<\/a> than President Joe Biden&#8217;s current \u2063age. The\u200d second most popular age limit, suggested by about a quarter of respondents, was 60 \u2064years old.<\/p>\n<h3>Increasing \u200bSupport \u2062for Age Limits \u200dwith\u2062 Age<\/h3>\n<p>Interestingly, as the respondents&#8217; age increased, their approval for age limits tended to\u200d increase as well. Among respondents over the age of 65, 74% preferred an age limit. In the age\u200c group between 30 and 65, 75% \u200cof respondents\u200b believed in the necessity \u2062of age limits. Even among the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boston-marathon-adds-new-guidelines-for-non-binary-athletes\/\" title=\"Boston Marathon Adds New Guidelines For \u2018Non-Binary Athletes\u2019\">youngest age group<\/a>, \u206418 to 30, 68% of respondents saw a need for age limits.\u2064 This support\u2062 for age limits was consistent across political affiliations,\u2064 with approximately\u2062 70% of Republicans, Democrats, and independents \u2062approving of the idea.<\/p>\n<p>The median age \u200cof members in the Senate is 65, according \u200bto Pew Research, while the House of Representatives has a median age of 57. Additionally, one-third of U.S. senators \u2062are over 70 years old, including \u200dPresident \u200dBiden and former President Donald Trump, who is currently \u2062the\u200b front-runner for the Republican nomination for president in the upcoming year.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200b poll also explored respondents&#8217; opinions on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-than-three-quarters-of-voters-want-an-age-limit-imposed-on-politicians-poll\/\" title=\"Over 75% of voters support age limit for politicians: Poll.\">younger political\u200b hopefuls<\/a>. 47% of respondents believed that having more\u2064 young people\u200d in office\u200b &#8220;would make politics \u200cbetter.&#8221; Similarly, 45%\u2064 expressed the same sentiment about women, 41% about racial minorities, and\u200c 32% about \u200bmembers \u200bof the LGBT community. In contrast,\u2063 only 12% believed that older people would \u200cmake politics better.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 survey, which included \u200cmore than 2,000 adults, had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> \u2063 to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent poll by CBS News and YouGov, 77% of voters agreed that age limits should be imposed on those seeking elected office. The survey, conducted in August, revealed that 40% of respondents suggested setting the age limit at 70 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2027546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2027545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2027546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}